The Vikings Were More Complicated Than You Might Think
Public fascination with the Vikings runs high these days, with several current television series available for bloody binge-watching. But the Vikings have never really gone...
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Daily Coronavirus Testing at Home? Many Experts Are Skeptical
Over the past few weeks, a Harvard scientist has made headlines for a bold idea to curb the spread of the coronavirus: rolling out so-called...
A Woman May Have Been Cured of H.I.V. Without Medical Treatment
A woman who was infected with H.I.V. in 1992 may be the first person cured of the virus without a risky bone-marrow transplant or even...
Climate Activists Gain Seats on Harvard Oversight Board
Bucking tradition, a group of climate activists has won three seats in an election to an important governing body at Harvard University, the Board of...
Justice Dept. Says Yale Discriminates. Here’s What Students Think.
When Siddarth Shankar applied to Yale in 2017, he did not hesitate to identify himself as Asian-American, and wrote about how visiting family members in...
The United States Is Reopening Many of the Wrong Schools
With coronavirus cases spiking in dozens of states, the prospect of anything resembling a normal school year is fading fast. Schools can’t safely reopen if...
Dementia on the Retreat in the U.S. and Europe
Despite the lack of effective treatments or preventive strategies, the dementia epidemic is on the wane in the United States and Europe, scientists reported on...
Aboard the Diamond Princess, a Case Study in Aerosol Transmission
In a year of endless viral outbreaks, the details of the Diamond Princess tragedy seem like ancient history. On Jan. 20, one infected passenger boarded...