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The weirdest things we learned this week: hot air balloon riots and the man-eatingest tiger
Science Our editors scrounged up some truly bizarre facts. What’s the weirdest thing you learned this week? Well, whatever it is, we promise you’ll...
Watch: Jake Gyllenhaal thinks Tom Holland is 'amazing' as Spider-Man
Jake Gyllenhaal praised his "Spider-Man" co-star Tom Holland during an apperance on "The Tonight Show," stating that the actor does an amazing job.
China says it expects progress on denuclearization during summit
China says expectations of "positive results" for the second U.S.-North Korea summit are high in Beijing.
Research rethinks tutorial teaching
Professors and graduate students are at opposite ends of the university hierarchy in terms of experience, qualifications and pay. But at many universities, both do the same job: they teach...
Pope Francis calls Catholic bishops to Rome for sex abuse summit
Pope Francis has summoned nearly 200 senior bishops to discuss the sexual abuse scandal that has enveloped the Catholic Church.
Studying ant cooperation is revealing how brains work together
By Jonathan O’Callaghan As a child, you almost certainly at one stage spent hours watching ants move about from their nest. Maybe you dropped a piece of food and watched...
Travelers use hotels' loyalty programs to get instant perks and rewards
Many travellers are members of multiple loyalty programmes, and the role of these programmes is often insignificant when choosing between different hotels, a new study from the University of Eastern...
Why Do So Many Americans Now Support Legalizing Marijuana?
Here's why public opinion has changed dramatically in favor of pot legalization.
Well : Loneliness Is Bad for Your Health. An App May Help.
A specific approach to mindfulness may increase sociability.
White House condemns terrorist attack in India
The White House reaffirmed its condemnation of last week's suicide bomb attack in India, offering its support for the country in its fight against terrorism.
Researchers peer inside the mind of the worm for clues on how memories form
Try as you might, some events cannot be remembered. Known in psychology as memory blocking, the phenomenon has remained elusive since first described more than half a century ago. Now...
President Bacow shares his vision for the future of higher ed
On one of his first trips as president of Harvard, Larry Bacow traveled to Washington, D.C., in July 2018, and there signaled that he would be a steadfast advocate for higher education....
Findings from Government Department’s climate survey
The Harvard Government Department’s Climate Change Committee, formed in March last year in the wake of sexual misconduct allegations, has released its climate survey report. Within the 100-plus-page document, the survey, released Feb. 6,...
Students, administrators attend conference designed to get the vote out
The next national election is nearly two years away, yet for the students and administrators who gathered for a national conference at Harvard, the time is now to begin strategizing how colleges...
Tracking love among the Ivies
The dating scene can be overwhelming and unsettling, including for Ivy League men and women who have achieved success in their professional lives but not in their romantic lives. Yet they should fear...
Harvard senior launches Latinx literary magazine
Ruben Reyes Jr. ’19 has written numerous columns and editorials for The Crimson, poems and essays for literary journals and websites, and most recently a short story for the Florida Review Online. While...
Harvard exhibit ‘Liz Magor: Blowout’ explores discarded objects
What happened to that stuffed animal you clung to as a child or those trendy shoes you once loved but have gone out of style? It’s a question Vancouver artist Liz Magor...
Harvard’s Graduate Commons Program fetes 10th anniversary with 5 scholars
A sense of community and belonging with a sweeping view of campus. Harvard Graduate Commons Program (GCP) is celebrating its 10th anniversary by partnering with the University’s Common Spaces website to take their...
At studio, Harvard College senior celebrates potential of AR/VR technology
Great art and literature seek to move people’s emotions and thoughts, though often from a distance. But what if people could experience the intellectual and sensory grandeur of Michelangelo’s painting in the Sistine...
Lessons in how to make the workplace inclusive for LGBTQ employees
Queer. Some still bristle when they hear it, but in 2019, when used to describe a gay person, “queer” doesn’t carry the same pejorative connotations that it might have 25 or 30...
Leader of Harvard working group discusses import on focusing on symbols and spaces
Harvard President Drew Faust established the Presidential Task Force on Inclusion and Belonging in 2016. In her charge to the new group, Faust said, “To realize the community’s full promise and to foster...
Harvard Chan School’s SHINE aims to help employees flourish
What good is a sustainable environment if it leaves people unhappy, unhealthy, and broke? As the calls for sustainability practices grew louder in recent years, Eileen McNeely thought the conversations were ignoring that...
No evidence tougher policies deter adolescent cannabis use
A new study has found no evidence that teenage cannabis use is lower in countries with tougher policies.
Prenatal forest fire exposure stunts children's growth
Forest fires are more harmful than previously imagined, causing stunted growth in children who were exposed to smoke while in the womb, according to new research.
Keep calm and don't carry on when parenting teens
In a new study, psychologists find that mothers and fathers who are less capable of dampening down their anger are more likely to resort to harsh discipline aimed at their...
Testimony: Patrick Frazee ordered woman to kill fiancee Kelsey Berreth
An Idaho nurse told investigators Tuesday that a Colorado man accused of killing his missing fiancee told her he beat the woman to death and burned her body.
Natural resources valued differently by men and woman
Men and women value, access and use resources from the natural environment in distinct and different ways, a new study has shown.
Brain's primitive sensory region also participates in sophisticated learning
Neuroscientists have revealed that a simple brain region, known for processing basic sensory information, can also guide complex feats of mental activity. The new study involving mice demonstrated that cells...