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Electronic guitar rips through desolate space, the only sound beyond wind whistling through red sand. As the opening chords of the B-52s’ pop-rock hit “Roam”

Electronic guitar rips through desolate space, the only sound beyond wind whistling through red sand. As the opening chords of the B-52s’ pop-rock hit “Roam”

Deep in lightless caves, fish have repeatedly evolved into blind, eyeless forms. Rather than descending from a single ancestor, different lineages of cavefish independently lost

How can an infectious disease that has been preventable and curable for decades continue to kill 1.5 million individuals each year? In his latest book,

For Amy Romano (SOM ’15, YSN ’04), few things are as special as childbirth—an intimate experience shared by women throughout history yet deeply influenced by

There are countless challenges facing humanity, but few people show the perseverance required to answer the most pressing questions. For Ella Xu (YC ’26), a

Humanity: the elusive concept that distinguishes Homo sapiens from the rest of the animal kingdom. The word has elicited an abundance of definitions, whether drawing

The human body contains an astonishing variety of cell types. Digestive cells secrete enzymes to break down food, brain cells fire electrical signals to form

On a summer afternoon, a bumblebee hovers before a flower. Rather than darting straight to the nectar, it performs an elaborate dance: drifting left, pausing,

For decades, designing proteins to bind to specific targets has been a difficult process, with low success rates requiring extensive experimental screening. Traditionally, structural biologists

We’re all familiar with the adage of trying to find a needle in a haystack. But what if, instead, we made the needle a thousand

Almost all star systems are out of kilter. Take our Solar System, for example. All the planets from fiery Mercury out to distant Neptune orbit

Anyone who has gone for a walk in the woods can tell you that forests are impossibly dense with life. From groundhogs and squirrels scampering