Christina Warinner says ancient dental plaque offers insights into diets, disease, dairying, and women’s roles of the period.

Dakota McCoy, in collaboration with David Haig, led a group of researchers at Harvard studying the black spider and its ultrablack coat with microlenses that could lead to innovations in solar panels and sunglasses glare.

Propelled by her viral short story, Harvard alumna Kristen Roupenian publishes her first collection, visits Cambridge.