
Findings
Insights, discoveries, and analysis from Harvard scholars and scientists.
-
โSmolderingโ cardiovascular crisis
Downward trend in deaths appears stalled due to lack of urgency among doctors, patients, along with healthcare barriers
Sign up for the Findings newsletter
-
Nation & World
Youth gun deaths rise in states that relaxed laws
Study compares child mortality rates before and after 2010 Supreme Court ruling
-
Health
Sonโs diabetes diagnosis sent scientist on quest for cure
Decades later, Doug Melton and team are testing treatment that could make insulin shots obsolete
-
Health
Wildfire smoke can harm heart and lungs even after the fire has ended
First study to fully assess its impact on all major types of cardiovascular, respiratory diseases
-
Science & Tech
Social media fueled divisions. Teaming up may help heal.
Study finds pairing members of opposing parties on the same side to compete in specially designed quiz eases partisanship
-
Health
Vitamin D supplements may slow biological aging
Trial shows protection against telomere shortening, which heightens disease risk
-
Science & Tech
โWe have a way of steering a fly like you would a carโ
Geneticists find method to turn tiny bugs into living robots
-
Exploring superconducting electrons in twisted graphene
Could up the game of lossless power transmission, levitating trains, quantum computing, even energy-efficient detectors for space exploration
-
Food, water โ and a friendly face
Health professionals view social contact as basic human need. Now researchers have tracked neurological basis for it.
-
Older adults at highest risk for suicide, yet have fewest resources
Study highlights imbalance in targets of online suicide prevention efforts
-
Hinting at answer to a chicken-or-egg question on evolution
Accidental find may help scientists resolve which evolved first: ability to produce oxygen by photosynthesis or consume it by aerobic metabolism
-
Eating citrus may lower depression risk
Physician-researcher outlines gut-brain clues behind โorange a dayโ finding
-
Is AI already shaking up labor market?
4 trends point to major change, say researchers who studied century of tech disruptions
-
Big step toward targeted molecular therapies for cancer
Researchers develop innovative approaches to understand, target, disrupt uncontrollable growth of disease
-
U.S. students need to start showing up
Detailing latest recovery scorecard, Ed School researcher urges broader action to reduce absenteeism, sharper focus on targeted catch-up efforts
-
Cancer claims are everywhere. Which to trust?
Our research-based quiz can help
-
Class surges as factor in who gets sent to prison
Incarceration rates fall for Black Americans, soar for white Americans without college education, finds study
-
What prompts genetic adaptation? Ask a finch.
Groundbreaking pangenomic study suggests big DNA flip may have made small bird resistant to some diseases
-
Landmark studies track source of Indo-European languages spoken by 40% of world
Researchers place Caucasus Lower Volga people, speakers of ancestor tongue, in todayโs Russia about 6,500 years ago
-
Different day, different diagnosis?
Study finds spike in ADHD cases on Halloween, highlighting stakes of cognitive bias in medicine
-
One way to save lives in jails
Researchers who studied healthcare in dozens of facilities link accreditation to better collaboration and treatment and fewer deaths
-
The brainโs gatekeepers
HMS research IDs special class of cells that safeguard immunity and memory, and may one day treat neurodegenerative disease
-
Need to boost population? Encourage dads to step up at home.
New historical research by economist Claudia Goldin finds link between fertility rates, gender roles
-
How exactly does ketamine work? New research offers insight.
Anesthetic growing in popularity as game-changing therapy for severe, treatment-resistant depression
-
New study maps the โdental desertsโ in the U.S. โ and there are lots of them
Harvard research shows 1.7 million lack access to care
-
Researchers make leap in quantum computing
Trapping molecules for use in systems may help make ultra-high-speed experimental technology even faster
-
Is small thinking the new American way?
Study says tighter land-use controls have hurt productivity and innovation among builders, fueling housing crisis
-
Wish you had a better memory?
Take our research-based quiz for tips on improving recall when it matters most
-
Gender-affirming care rare among U.S. youth, study says
Fewer than 1 in 1,000 transgender youth receive hormones or puberty blockers
-
Unfuzzy math: U.S. needs to do betterย
Ed School expert has some ideas, including a rethink of homework bans, after โdiscouragingโ results
-
Nature offers novel approach to oral wound care
Slugโs sticky mucus inspiration behind adhesive hydrogel that can seal wounds in wet environment
-
Time for a rethink of colonoscopy guidelines?
Change informed by new findings would help specialists focus on those most at risk, researcher says
-
The deadly habit we canโt quite kick
Actions by tobacco companies worry researcher even amid โdramatic decreaseโ in smoking among young Americans
-
Real reason ACL injury rate is higher for women athletes
Study finds flaw in key sports science metric
-
Exact cause of Notre-Dame fire still unclear. But disaster perhaps couldโve been avoided.
Leadership expert says foreseeable factors all contributed to complex failure. Consistent focus needed on best practices, rules, procedures.
-
Why do gliomas tend to recur in the brain?
First look at the interplay between neurons and tumors sheds light on formation, spread
-
Probe the gut, protect the brain?
In fight against Parkinsonโs and other disorders, two-way connection may someday lead to a breakthrough