Seeing promise, and limits, in embryo edit

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CfA releases educational app ahead of highly anticipated solar eclipse

The negative side of positive thinking

Study finds optimism may curb action

Digitization project uncovers forgotten loan of Baltic amber

383 specimens to be returned to Königsberg collection at the University of Göttingen

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Harvard Arthrobots

Inspired by arthropod insects and spiders, Harvard researchers have created an entirely new type of semi-soft robots capable of standing and walking using drinking straws and inflatable tubing. 

Harvard Professor takes Alzheimer’s fight personally

Harvard Medical School Professor Reisa Sperling talks about the personal impact of Alzheimer’s disease, which killed both her father and grandfather.

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Harvard bioethicist shares hope, concerns on gene-editing

he disease-targeting embryo edit at Oregon Health & Science University signals a path for “those rare situations where the genes really are life-threatening,” says Harvard bioethicist Robert …

Location of WWII internment camp linked to long-term economic inequality

A paper co-authored by Harvard economist Daniel Shoag found that Japanese-Americans who were sent to internment camps in poorer regions fared worse than those who were sent to richer areas, and the …

Study finds optimism can lead to inaction

“It often seems that partisans believe they are so correct that others will eventually come to see the obviousness of their correctness,” said Todd Rogers of the Harvard Kennedy School about his …

Looking beyond D.C. debate, Harvard economist zeroes in on cost

After the Senate’s failure to reform Obamacare, Harvard economist David Cutler assesses what occurred and what the future might hold.

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Humans of HDS: My Path to Hindu Chaplaincy

Shrestha Singh grew up in the Bay Area in California. She is the daughter of Indian immigrants and has an older sister and a pit bull mix named Scout, whom she loves very much. …

Controlling Cyber Conflict

Aug 8, 2017"While cyber and nuclear technologies are vastly different, the process by which society learns to cope with a highly disruptive technology shows instructive similarities. …

Harvard Law’s WTO moot court team takes first place in international competition

In June, Harvard Law School’s World Trade Organization (WTO) moot court team won the 15th Annual European Law Students Association (ELSA) Moot Court Competition on WTO Law, marking the first win …

Climate Change in 2017: Implications for Business

August 9, 2017Harvard Business School Image: [The Department of Defense] recognizes the reality of climate change and the significant risk it poses to U.S. interests globally. …

Where Workers Are the Happiest

The countries and industries where subjective well-being is highest.

Bound by History: Universities and Slavery

Around the Institute Special CommentaryRadcliffe conference looked at the complicated relationship between two American institutions: higher education and slavery. …

Pathways Upward

The third Celebration of Latino Alumni brought more than 200 HLS graduates and guests back to campus in March. …

“In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.”

Why is it great? First off, the rhythm of the sentence makes me swoon. …