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How Schizophrenia Resembles the Aging Brain
The search for schizophrenia’s biological basis reveals an unexpected link to cellular changes seen in aging brains.
by Ann Thomas
Reassessing the Gender Wage Gap
Economist Claudia Goldin investigates what causes the gender wage gap, and what doesn't.
by Marina N. Bolotnikova
The Science of History
Historians at Harvard's Initiative for the Science of the Human Past investigate ice cores.
by Marina N. Bolotnikova
Debating School Choice
Economists rethink the merits of school-choice systems.
by Marina N. Bolotnikova
Fighting for Veterans, Learning the Law
Harvard Law students fight for veterans’ rights locally and nationally.
by Laura Levis
Mimicking Organs
The Wyss Institute’s organs-on-chips could transform drug testing and personalized medicine.
by Laura Levis
Capital Punishment’s Persistence
An historian tracks the death penalty’s persistence in America.
by Sophia Nguyen
Rationality and Robots
New thinking machines demand a new economic science.
by Lydialyle Gibson
Termites’ Cathedral Mounds
Physicists look into the function of towering termite mounds.
by Sophia Nguyen
The Data on Drama
Derek Miller hopes data will shake up the field of theater history.
by Jonathan Shaw
Putting Social Progress on Par with Prosperity
Measuring the economic growth of nations is not enough, says Harvard Business School’s Michael Porter.
by Laura Levis