10 ways to keep your heart healthy in summer heat

With things heating up this summer, it's important to protect your heart health. A cardiologist has 10 tips that can help you stay safe.

Gregory Filiano-Stony Brook • futurity
July 21, 2021 ~6 min

How to avoid food-borne illness – a nutritionist explains

'When in doubt, throw it out' – and more tips to make sure your festive feast won't make you sick.

Ruth S. MacDonald, Associate Dean, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Iowa State University • conversation
July 21, 2021 ~7 min


Lighter pavement really does cool cities when it’s done right

Here’s how reflective pavement works and what cities need to think about.

Randolph E. Kirchain, Co-Director, MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub, Massachusetts Institute of Technology • conversation
June 18, 2021 ~7 min

Why wasps become so annoying at the end of summer

Finally we have a word to describe why wasps bother you in late summer: furlough.

Seirian Sumner, Professor of Behavioural Ecology, UCL • conversation
Aug. 27, 2020 ~7 min

Lawrence Summers says national pandemic response lacking

Harvard economist and former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers said we’re in greater danger of doing too little to fight COVID-19 than too much.

Alvin Powell • harvard
June 19, 2020 ~6 min

You can have outdoor fun in the COVID era, but keep your distance

Summer message from a health expert: Go outside and play, but don’t forget about COVID.

Alvin Powell • harvard
May 19, 2020 ~8 min

Harvard panel on mental health in the workplace

Faculty of Arts and Sciences Diversity Summer Panel focuses on the impacts of mental illness in the workplace and what can be done about it.

Juan Siliezar • harvard
Aug. 23, 2019 ~6 min

Harvard-Michigan opioid summit explores addiction, policy

A University of Michigan-Harvard University summit brought experts from the two universities as well as outside organizations to consider ways to address the opioid epidemic.

Alvin Powell • harvard
May 13, 2019 ~7 min


Study uses rings in teeth to understand the environment Neanderthals faced

By examining the teeth of Neanderthal infants, a team of researchers was able to glean insight into nursing and weaning behavior as well as winter and summer cycles. The study even found evidence that the Neanderthals had been exposed to lead — the earliest such exposure ever recorded in any human ancestor.

Peter Reuell • harvard
Dec. 3, 2018 ~7 min

Study uses rings in teeth to understand the environment Neanderthals faced

By examining the teeth of Neanderthal infants, a team of researchers was able to glean insight into nursing and weaning behavior as well as winter and summer cycles. The study even found evidence that the Neanderthals had been exposed to lead — the earliest such exposure ever recorded in any human ancestor.

Peter Reuell • harvard
Dec. 3, 2018 ~7 min

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