Faculty & Research
Chinese Trade Dragons
How Will China’s Rapid Growth in the Clean Technology Industry Reshape U.S.-China Policy?
by Olivia Farrar
Stephanie Gil Helps Robots Work Better Together
Crafting algorithms to optimize search and rescue operations, delivery drones, and more
by Kristina DeMichele
Harvard's Black-Hole Debunker
Astrophysicist Kareem El-Badry challenges scientific mistakes.
by Isabel Mehta
$200 Million Gift Underwrites Climate and Sustainability Institute
Vice provost James Stock to direct Harvard’s new Salata Institute
by John S. Rosenberg , Jonathan Shaw
Fracking’s Deadly Toll
Harvard researchers find that fracking shortens the lives of elderly Americans living downwind of unconventional oil and gas wells.
by Daniel Oberhaus
Why Aid Cuts Didn’t End Worker Shortages
Why cutting jobless aid during the pandemic didn’t send workers scrambling for work
by Erin O'Donnell
Views from the Top
President Bacow and Senior Fellow Lee on Harvard today
by John S. Rosenberg
“No Going Back to Normal”
Addressing the complexities of children’s mental health
by Jacob Sweet
Richard Evans Schultes
Brief life of a pioneering ethnobotanist and conservationist: 1915-2001
by Mark J. Plotkin
Telling Humanity’s Story through DNA
Geneticist David Reich rewrites the ancient human past.
by Jonathan Shaw
The Black Hole at the Center of the Galaxy
Scientists affiliated with the Event Horizon Telescope publish the first image of Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy.
by Jonathan Shaw