- Live-imaging tracking of nervous system development – in squid embryos – suggest that cephalopods and vertebrates use similar mechanisms to build big brains https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2022/11/harvard-study-looks-at-how-cephalopods-develop-their-big-brains/ 2 comments science
- Would a democratic China be any less belligerent? https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/07/long-term-survey-reveals-chinese-government-satisfaction/ 99 comments geopolitics
- Reducing sugar in packaged foods can prevent disease in millions — A new health and economic model clearly shows why it’s imperative that food manufacturers reduce the amount of added sugar in their products https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2021/08/study-reducing-sugar-in-packaged-foods-could-reduce-disease/ 4 comments science
- Do justices really set aside personal beliefs? Nope, legal scholar says https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/10/legal-scholar-warns-of-potential-supreme-court-changes/ 15 comments law
- Harvard expert says coronavirus likely now ‘gathering steam’ https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/02/harvard-expert-says-coronavirus-likely-just-gathering-steam/ 8 comments worldnews
- Participating in an eight-week mindfulness meditation program appears to make measurable changes in brain regions associated with memory, sense of self, empathy, and stress. https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2011/01/eight-weeks-to-a-better-brain/ 199 comments science
- New Harvard study says music is universal language https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/11/new-harvard-study-establishes-music-is-universal/ 32 comments science
- Harvard study links red meat consumption with early death https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/06/harvard-study-links-red-meat-consumption-with-early-death/?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=hu-twitter-general&utm_source=twitter 69 comments science
- Researchers propose ‘machine behavior’ field could blend AI, social sciences https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/06/researchers-propose-machine-behavior-field-could-blend-ai-social-sciences/ 14 comments artificial
- Since the 1970s, income growth for the richest people and places has far outpaced the relatively modest increases seen elsewhere. In 1980, only about 12 percent of the population lived in places that were especially rich or especially poor. By 2013, it was over 30 percent. https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/05/study-finds-gap-between-rich-and-poor-growing-regionally-too/ 43 comments science
- Harvard study proposes new way to probe universe before the Big Bang https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/04/harvard-study-proposes-new-way-to-probe-universe-before-the-big-bang/ 12 comments science
- Harvard works to embed ethics in computer science curriculum https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/01/harvard-works-to-embed-ethics-in-computer-science-curriculum/ 83 comments compsci
- Zeroing in on long-term weight loss https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2018/11/key-to-long-term-weight-loss-may-be-as-simple-as-more-fat-fewer-carbs/ 6 comments science
- In a new paper, sociologists focused on Donald Trump's references during his campaign to social groups such as refugees, Latinos, and Muslims, and the topical contexts in which those words were used, such as drugs, safety, jobs, and terrorism. https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2018/02/trumps-language-is-directed-at-the-worried-working-class/ 16 comments science
- Mathematicians expand 'quon', their pictorial math language developed to help understand quantum information theory, into new fields from algebra to M-theory. https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2018/01/mathematicians-work-to-expand-pictorial-language-into-other-fields/ 10 comments science
- Though people are likelier to make an uninhibited post on a temporary social media platform such as Snapchat, viewers are no less likely to harshly judge them for it, according to a study https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/10/harvard-researcher-shows-peril-of-social-posts/ 4 comments science
- Harvard and MIT researchers have developed smart tattoo ink capable of monitoring dehydration and blood sugar by changing color. https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/09/harvard-researchers-help-develop-smart-tattoos/ 29 comments science
- Storms common to the Midwest in summer create the same ozone-damaging chemical reactions found in polar regions in winter, according to a new Harvard study. http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/06/harvard-climate-study-reveals-ozone-hole-risk-in-midwest/ 5 comments science
- Making math more Lego-like http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/03/making-math-more-lego-like/ 29 comments math
- Vitamin D supplements shown to cut the risk of respiratory infection in half. http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/02/study-confirms-vitamin-d-protects-against-cold-and-flu/ 22 comments science
- Psychopaths are not incapable of feeling emotions, like regret and disappointment, but what they cannot do is make accurate predictions about the outcomes of their choices, according to a new Harvard study http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/02/a-revised-portrait-of-psychopaths/ 66 comments science
- And now: President CEO http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/01/how-ceo-trump-may-change-how-government-works/ 10 comments politics
- Researchers found evidence that suggests that bacteria living in the gut may remotely influence the activity of cells in the brain that are involved in controlling inflammation and neurodegeneration http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2016/05/gut-bacteria-link-and-multiple-sclerosis/ 274 comments science
- Widely reported analysis that said much psych research couldn’t be reproduced is riddled with its own replication errors, Harvard researchers say http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2016/03/study-that-undercut-psych-research-got-it-wrong/?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=hu-linkedinuniversity-general 53 comments science
- Blood-cleansing device connected to dialysis-like circuit removes pathogens, toxins from blood; recent improvements make device work with conventional antibiotic therapies, better positioned for near-term use in clinics http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2015/08/wyss-improves-sepsis-device/ 10 comments science
- Researchers discover bacteria propelled by a kind of rotary driver http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2015/03/mystery-motor/ 6 comments science
- A new study shows that the teeth of early hominins grew unlike those of either modern humans or apes, suggesting that neither can serve as a useful proxy for estimating the age or developmental progression of juvenile fossils. http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2015/03/the-teeth-tell-a-tale/ 3 comments science
- The politics of jurisprudence - Conservatives lead upper ranks of judiciary, and liberals fare better in lower ones, research says http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2015/02/the-politics-of-jurisprudence/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=hu-facebook-general 6 comments science
- Computer models show that super-Earths may host liquid water http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2015/01/surfing-on-a-super-earth/ 2 comments science
- Using scans of the brain, Harvard researchers show that patterns of neural activity change when people look at black and white faces, and male and female faces http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2013/10/whats-in-a-face/ 12 comments science
- Harvard Business School course uses works of literature instead of case studies to teach leadership http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2013/08/truth-in-fiction/ 25 comments business
- Warmest Summers in Last Two Decades in Northern Latitudes Were Unprecedented in Six Centuries http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2013/04/warmth-across-600-years/ 4 comments science
- Beneficial mutations may occur more often than first thought, but many never emerge as “winners” because they don’t fall within the narrow set of circumstances required for them to dominate a population http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2013/03/when-timing-is-everything/ 5 comments science
- A new study finds that researchers can detect oxygen in the atmosphere of a habitable planet orbiting a white dwarf http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2013/02/dying-stars-source-of-life/ 7 comments space
- Sir Alex Ferguson visits Harvard Business School http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2012/12/sir-alex-leads-the-way/ 13 comments soccer
- By studying strange coiling behavior in the grasping tendrils of the cucumber plant, researchers have characterized a new type of spring that is soft when pulled gently and stiff when pulled strongly http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2012/08/clues-in-the-cucumbers-climb/ 193 comments science
- Exposure therapy for arachnophobia seems to be more effective if it is followed by sleep, according to new research study http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2012/07/giving-phobias-a-rest/ 5 comments science
- Turing was right: Two proteins fit decades-old prediction. http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2012/04/turing-was-right/ 15 comments science
- Wtf, when did we gain this ability? http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2001/01.24/01-stoplight.html 116 comments technology
- Physicist converts light into matter: no immediate practical uses http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2007/02.08/99-hau.html 10 comments reddit.com