Category: 1. Edi-Choice

Common knowledge is something everyone knows that everyone knows. He saw it. She saw it. He knows that she saw it, and vice versa, ad infinitum.

According to Steven Pinker, Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology, humans are constantly…

That day in 2019 now seems like a relic of a bygone era.

Jessica Whited shows a photo of one of her proudest moments. She stands with her parents — an autoworker and a schoolteacher — after winning a Presidential Early Career Award signed…

In a classroom in the Sherman Fairchild Laboratory Building, 6-year-old Marianne Cullen was starting to get the jitters. She was about to meet her favorite scientist, regenerative biologist and axolotl researcher Jessica Whited.

“You might…

On June 20, the Environmental Defense Fund announced that its MethaneSAT satellite had lost contact with Earth and is presumed lost. MethaneSAT, which its builders say is the most advanced methane-imaging satellite ever put in orbit, sought to…

By 2050, education will look radically different than it does now, according to psychologist and social scientist Howard Gardner — the originator of the theory of multiple intelligences — and Anthea Roberts, a visiting professor at Harvard…

Human history is rife with contentions about the purity (and superiority) of the bloodlines of one group over another and claims over ancestral homelands.

More than a decade of work on ancient human DNA has upended it all.

Instead, Harvard…

Since 2012, geneticist David Reich and his team of researchers have been studying DNA from living and ancient people to probe mysteries surrounding the origins of human life. But the future of their work faces uncertainty after the Trump…

For years, people with paralysis have used brain-computer interfaces to turn neural signals into actions by thinking about the actions they would like to take: typing words, controlling robotic arms, producing speech. But new research shows that…

When Anil Menon launches into space aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket next June, he’ll bring two decades of experience as a physician, engineer, military pilot, and NASA…

Fascinated by words, Adam Aleksic ’23 created a blog to write about their origins when he was in ninth grade. After graduating from Harvard with a concentration in linguistics and government, he became known online as the Etymology Nerd, a…