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New research shows that OpenMetabolics, an open-source, smartphone-based activity monitor developed by a team of Harvard researchers led by PhD student Haedo Chohave, outperforms state-of-the-art smartwatches and fitness trackers at estimating calories burned. 

Duygu Payzin Dogru, PhD '22, and her colleagues reveal the axolotl’s 'whole-body' secret to limb regrowth, offering a new blueprint for the future of human regenerative medicine.

The best writers, like those figure skaters who float gracefully through the air, make it look easy, effortless. It is anything but. 

Are the elements that made Boston the cauldron of the American Revolution in the 1770s playing out again in the United States today? Historian, author, and former presidential adviser Ted Widmer, PhD ’93, discusses the parallels—and perils—of looking to the past to understand the present. 

Often called the “Father of Black History,” Carter G. Woodson, PhD '12, dedicated his career to ensuring that Black life and history were documented, studied, and understood as central to the American story. 
 

Zoe Hitzig, PhD '23, once believed she could help the people building artificial intelligence get ahead of the problems it would create. Slowly, she realized that OpenAI seemed to have stopped asking the questions she'd joined to help answer.