The Developing Child
With a new interdisciplinary center, Harvard turns its focus to the earliest years of life.
Our Psychotropic Lives
History professor Daniel Lord Smail explores the role of psychotropic mechanisms in human evolution and history.
The Harvard Center for Gastrophysics?
Harvard science labs and master chef Ferran Adrià confect a mutually beneficial partnership.
Right Now | January-February 2009
The Fit Fat
Harvard Medical School’s Bruce Spiegelman studies brown fat, a little-known type of tissue with health-promoting potential.
Alumni | January-February 2009
Anthony Woods: Taking a Stand
Anthony C. Woods has initiated his own dismissal from the U.S. Army under the “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy.
Features | November-December 2008
Decoding Diabetes
Elizabeth Gudrais reports on how discoveries in genetics, cell metabolism, and the study of small molecules point the way to new therapies and perhaps a cure for diabetes.
Right Now | September-October 2008
Proof Positive
Richard L. Taylor’s work connects two discrete domains of mathematics: curved spaces, from geometry, and modular arithmetic, which has to do with counting...
Kristie Macrakis book about spying, techniques, and gadgets used by the Stasi
Historian of science Kristie Macrakis has written Seduced by Secrets, a book about spying, techniques and gadgets used by the Stasi, communist East Germany's secret police...
Unequal America
Causes and consequences of the wide—and growing—gap between rich and poor
Flocking to Finance
Recent graduates may take for granted the migration of one-fifth of their classmates into finance-sector jobs, but things haven’t always...
Home of the Humanities
At a serene Harvard outpost, scholars find fertile ground for Byzantine, pre-Columbian, and landscape studies...
"Tyrant Fever's" Trigger
When an infection assails the body, the response is predictable. Fever, loss of appetite, fatigue, that achy feeling—we never get just one...