Why did sexual reproduction persist despite its biological costs? A new yeast experiment suggests genetic recombination can help populations avoid harmful evolutionary baggage and remain adaptable when environments change.
How to fix U.S. healthcare? ‘Radical action,’ says John McDonough. Chan School expert links soaring costs to broader policy shifts in ‘America’s Wrong Turn’...
Why does the United States spend so much more on healthcare than other wealthy countries? Harvard professor John McDonough traces part of the answer to decades of policy change, consolidation and growing commercial influence.
Photo by Antonia Prescott ‘Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.’ Total keto or veganism? Daniel Lieberman considers how, why humans evolved to eat it all...
Photo by Antonia Prescott Total keto or veganism? Daniel Lieberman considers how humans evolved to eat. Excerpt from evolutionary biologist’s new book ‘Fed...
Danielle Allen.Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Staff Photographer How somewhat obscure English duke helped stoke American revolutionary ambitions Danielle Allen’...
Don’t mince words, Radcliffe told scholars. It worked. Photo courtesy of Harvard Radcliffe Institute Jacob Sweet Harvard Staff Writer July 31, 2026...
How AI may change public policy, how we lead Jeremy Weinstein leads his class “Public Problem Solving with Generative AI.” Photos by Veasey Conway/Harvard Sta...
Niles Singer/Harvard Staff Photographer Almost everyone she knew growing up were laborers. Now she researches inactivity. Epidemiologist I-Min Lee has publi...
Images from Paul Firth’s canoeing trip on Yukon River.Photos by Paul Firth The bear? Nonchalant. Me? More ‘chalant.’ Alvin Powell Harvard Staff Writer...
Karen Korellis Reuther.Photo by Raya Al-Hashmi World is designed by, for men. It shouldn’t be. Karen Korellis Reuther explains why it’s a problem (dangerous...
Harvard’s 375th Commencement takes place in Tercentenary Theatre. Photo by Grace DuVal Thanks for the memories Veasey Conway Harvard Staff Photographe...