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With Election Day approaching and the coronavirus pandemic surging, Benjamin Sommers discusses how shifting political winds might affect health care.

Second in a four-part series that taps the expertise of the Harvard community to examine the promise and potential pitfalls of the rising age of artificial ...

Book confronts historical, ethical questions posed by Zealy daguerreotypes.

Study represents the most comprehensive scientific survey to date about the interrelationship between COVID-19 and cancer.

Researchers at Harvard’s Music Lab have determined that American infants relaxed when played lullabies that were unfamiliar and in a foreign language.

Michael Klarman, an expert in constitutional law and constitutional history at Harvard Law School, discusses President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett.

Faculty from the Computer Science and Philosophy departments join forces in a successful new undergraduate initiative, Embedded EthiCS, to change the way computer scientists think about the ethical implications of new technology.

Harvard Chan School’s Joseph Allen gives America an “F” on school reopening efforts, and says we’re in danger of losing thousands of virtual dropouts and wasting mild late summer/early autumn weather we could use to boost in-person learning.

As part of Worldwide Week at Harvard, the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs hosted “Rethinking Resistance Politics in Troubling Times: Transnational Queer Solidarity During COVID-19,” an online panel discussing recent work examining the...

The TestBoston study will facilitate at-home testing on 10,000 people for both the SARS-CoV-2 virus and antibodies against it to increase access to testing and surveillance.

A new study shows that people who survive serious COVID-19 infections have long-lasting immune responses against the virus.

Srikant Datar, the Arthur Lowes Dickinson Professor of Business Administration and senior associate dean for University affairs at Harvard Business School, will become the School’s next dean, President Larry Bacow announced.

Upending conventional wisdom, new political science research finds that voters aren’t automatically put off by ambitious women candidates.

Computational algorithms enable identification and optimization of RNA-based tools for myriad applications.

A new study of ice-core data shows that an unusual, six-year period of cold temperatures and heavy rainfall coincided with European deaths during the 1918 Spanish flu.