Why are you cursing?

Steven Pinker breaks down the history of taboo words, different categories of swearing, and the meaning conveyed by a bleep

Harvard Gazette • harvard
June 2, 2025 • ~8 min

When a stove’s virtues amount to more than just hot air

Science historian examines how Benjamin Franklin’s invention sparked new thinking on weather, technology

Harvard Gazette • harvard
March 31, 2025 • ~11 min

Life-changing brain tech, but with a chilling caveat

Fellow’s paper draws from history to urge caution on brain-computer interfaces

Harvard Gazette • harvard
March 10, 2025 • ~6 min

Landmark studies track source of Indo-European languages spoken by 40% of world

Researchers place Caucasus Lower Volga people, speakers of ancestor tongue, in today’s Russia about 6,500 years ago

Harvard Gazette • harvard
Feb. 5, 2025 • ~10 min

Big discovery about microscopic ‘water bears’

Bit of happenstance, second look at ancient fossils leads to new insights into evolution of tardigrade, one of most indestructible life forms on planet

Harvard Gazette • harvard
Oct. 16, 2024 • ~7 min

Author Robert Paarlberg argues against buying organic

An excerpt from “Resetting the Table: Straight Talk about the Food We Grow and Eat” by Robert Paarlberg, associate in the Sustainability Science Program at the Harvard Kennedy School and at Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.

Robert Paarlberg • harvard
Feb. 2, 2021 • ~21 min

Study offers clues to how climate affected 1918 pandemic

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.

Alvin Powell • harvard
Oct. 5, 2020 • ~7 min

New clues about how and why the Maya culture collapsed

Human-environmental scientist says there are new clues about how and why the Maya culture collapsed.

Clea Simon • harvard
Feb. 28, 2020 • ~7 min

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