Max Larkin

"World Enemy No. 1" author Jochen Hellbeck wants the West to acknowledge the Soviet role in stopping Hitler.

Merit Cudkowicz has been working on ALS for three decades. She knew who she wanted to tell as soon as she was able to discuss the breakthrough findings publicly.

After a year at the Kennedy School, Grier Wilt returning to NASA ready for next lunar missions.

Phi Beta Kappa speakers urge Harvard grads to build character.

For Christian Wiman, "dead on the table" more than once, suffering is no longer the only authentic thing.

A flawed first copy — dashed off in an all-nighter in 1776 — endures as a template for democracy in action.

Broad Institute researcher details U.S. biobank’s value as global resource in study of roots of disease, health.

Kennedy School team says shared fandom has promise as undervalued social "medicine" for division and isolation.

Just as this country celebrated its 250th birthday, some geneticists were celebrating America, too. At the end of June, the National Institutes of Health announced its "All of Us" Research Program had become the world's largest database of integrated health and genomic information. The project, launched in 2015 under the Obama administration, aimed to collect comprehensive genetic information and health records from at least a million Americans. Eleven years later, they're approaching that goal, with 747,000 volunteers sharing their whole genomes, lifelong health records or both.

The state of the American social fabric—enormous, diverse and rent by stark partisan divides—is daunting enough that it can be hard to think about, let alone try to mend. At the Harvard Kennedy School, two social scientists are advancing the proposition that sports fandom, a powerful social phenomenon and force, may have a role to play in improving lives and strengthening societies.