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Economist Rebecca Diamond, PhD '13, says the pattern suggests that at least part of the female obesity penalty — the social and financial costs women bear due to their body size — is linked to first impressions. 

Does work disappear when AI is better than humans at every single job task? Labor economist and Harvard College Dean David Deming, PhD ’10, makes the case that even superintelligent AI won't end human work, thanks to the oldest non-trivial idea in economics.

Three mixed-media paintings by David Bakalar evoke the synapses of the brain while drawing inspiration from Albert Einstein’s landmark mass-energy equivalence formula.

A group led by astronomer Collin Cherubim, PhD '26, has discovered an atmosphere on an Earth-like planet in the temperate “habitable zone” of a distant star system—an intriguing hint of another world that might be hospitable to life.

The Harvard Griffin GSAS alumnus, an expert in porous materials for energy and sustainability, has been named the inaugural Thomas C. Foley Professor of Energy and the Environment and director of the new Harvard Materials Initiative.

Heading to the theater for Christopher Nolan's blockbuster retelling of the ancient Greek epic? Harvard classics professor David Elmer unpacks the story's themes of hospitality and moral ambiguity first.