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Alarm over menstrual tracking apps

Sarah Richardson, Aramont Professor of the History of Science and professor of studies of women, gender, and sexuality, ...
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12 Nobels, two rhinos, and continued legacy of scientific discovery

The Biological Laboratories at 16 Divinity Avenue first opened in 1931. In the 95 years of its existence, the storied ...
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Pope Leo XIV presents scientific honor to astrochemist Karin Öberg

Karin Öberg, professor of astronomy and Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences, traveled to Vatican City last ...
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Caribbean art takes campus spotlight

We have never before shown an entire exhibition from the French and Creole-speaking Caribbean,” said Cécile Fromont, M.A. ’04 ...
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Hoekstra, Petrofsky outline new FAS administrative model at first faculty meeting of academic year

Edgerley Family Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Hopi Hoekstra used the first Meeting of the Faculty of the 2026–27 academic year to reflect on the Workforce Planning effort and to discuss the ...
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‘This is really not a time to find your chatbot BFFs’

The advance of artificial intelligence, we are told, is inevitable. Nothing can stop AI chatbots from entering classrooms, ...
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Evidence of board games building bedrock social skills

Researchers from Elizabeth Spelke’s Harvard Laboratory for Developmental Studies were studying preschool math interventions in India when an unexpected discovery surfaced: Preschoolers assigned to ...
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Elevating a character at the heart of Steinbeck’s ‘East of Eden’

When Hoon Lee ’94 received the script for the role of Lee in Zoe Kazan’s Netflix adaptation of “East of Eden,” he was prepared to be skeptical. Decades in the industry had left the Massachusetts-born ...
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8 awarded W.E.B. Du Bois Medals in joyful ceremony

Singer Mavis Staples, actress Angela Bassett, and soccer star Didier Drogba were among the honorees presented with W.E.B. Du Bois Medals Thursday at Sanders Theatre. The annual ceremony, hosted by the ...
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Finding their way in ‘Masquerade’

This past summer, three Harvard students helped transport Manhattan audiences to Parisian rooftops, to opera house dressing rooms, and to a subterranean labyrinth. Tanner Quirk ’29, Alicia Chu ’28, ...
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Valeria Luiselli named finalist for 2026 National Book Award

Valeria Luiselli is a finalist for the 2026 National Book Award in Fiction, the National Book Foundation announced Tuesday. Luiselli, an incoming professor of English, was nominated for her novel ...
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The optimal diet? Kitchen experiment leads scientist to answer

For most of his life, Daniel Lieberman has dedicated his mind to studying the evolution of the human body. In his latest project, he also devoted his body — specifically his digestive tract — to ...