A New York startup is racing tech’s biggest names to take quantum computing out of the lab and turn it into something that businesses can actually use. (HBS Alumni Bulletin)

How a humble Nobel laureate found a new mission: science diplomacy. (HBPH Magazine)

From status symbol to character flaw, obesity has represented different things at different times. Today’s researchers think of it as a biologically complex disorder—and they’re beginning to unravel its mysteries.

A scientist studies the mysterious genes that emerge from silent stretches of DNA. (Rockefeller News)

Massaging machine-learning algorithms to reduce—not perpetuate—human bias. (HBS Alumni Bulletin)

A Google engineer discusses the future of digital privacy. (Techer)

After decades of groundbreaking work here in the US, a Kenyan chemist dreams of turning his home country into a scientific powerhouse. (art|sci)

Harnessing the power of space-age intelligence for the commercial sector. (HBS Alumni Bulletin)

Meet Victor Wilson, a WWII refugee who escaped Nazi-occupied Europe and helped  figure out why astronauts get space-sick. (Rockefeller News)

Scientists are on a mission to defang one of the world’s most dangerous mosquitos. Step one? Get her to cooperate. (Seek)

A geophysicist brings fault lines into sharper focus. (Techer)

Scott Kuo helps researchers see more deeply. (Johns Hopkins Magazine)

A physicist explains how quantum computers work, what makes them special—and how soon we might get our hands on them. (Denison Magazine)

Engineers develop origami-inspired heart implants that grow along with patients over time. (Johns Hopkins Magazine)

How wearable and implantable technology is changing the future of health care. (HBPH Magazine)

The ultra-cold technique of cryo-electron microscopy has set the world of structural biology on fire. (Seek)

A researcher uses the science of sound perception to combat hearing loss. (art|sci)

A photochemist mentors aspiring scientists. (art|sci)

The newest hope for disease control? Hack mosquitoes’ sense of smell. (HBPH Magazine)

New research suggests that maybe, just maybe, the universe could be sphere-shaped. (Johns Hopkins Magazine)

Scientists explore the mechanics of being alive. (Seek)

Keeping the peace in the rough-and-tumble world of online gaming. (Techer)

A bit of genetic trickery, borrowed from bacteria, has made gene editing easy. The question now is how to make good use of it. (Seek)

Biologist Emmett Jolly beat the odds to become a scientist. Now he fights monsters. (art|sci)

Scientists discover a new law of nature—and throw into question much of what we thought we know about the universe. (Think)

Miniature plastic chips with cells embedded are a quick and effective way to test drugs. (Discover)

A blizzard of big data promises to revolutionize biomedical science—if researchers can make sense of it all. (Dartmouth Medicine)

Jean and Joe Sanger have spent a lifetime together in the lab, revolutionizing cell biology along the way. (Dartmouth Medicine)

A handheld doohickey uses magnetic nanoparticles to detect trace amounts of weed, meth, and heroin. (MIT Technology Review)

Quantum mechanics may hold the key to a hand-held biology laboratory. (The Economist.) [This one’s behind a paywall, so I’ve linked to the audio version, complete with a posh British accent.]

A Montreal startup has a plan to make online identity theft a thing of the past. The only problem? No one gives a rat’s ass. (Wired)

Rising rents and new technology are cramming recording studios into ever-smaller spaces. Welcome to the vest-pocket studio. (Wired)

Can algae deliver on the promise of a biofueled future? (HBS Alumni Bulletin)

An economist and a pediatrician discuss some of the thorniest issues surrounding healthcare and health policy, and how we can solve them. (AMS Newsletter)

Known as ‘bent arrows,’ these students changed direction to pursue MDs. (Think)

A gift from an unlikely source supports research into psychedelics as a tool for treating mental health disorders. (Planning Matters)

You probably don’t associate Google with public health. But physician and public health expert Vuong “Von” Nguyen is doing his best to change that. (Rice Magazine)

A former West Philadelphia safety-net hospital is becoming something totally new: a resource hub for achieving health equity and sustaining public health. (Penn Medicine)

A neurologist searches for a way to help physicians distinguish between harmless dizziness and the kind that indicates a stroke. (Planning Matters)

A community-based program aims to help older public-housing residents safeguard their vision. (Columbia Medicine)

Arrests and incarceration won’t stop urban gun violence. But community violence prevention might. (HBPH Magazine)

A leading killer of hospitalized patients just may have met its match. (Hopkins Medicine)

A Columbia University coalition aims to create a new generation of researchers to help solve gun violence. (Columbia Medicine)

In a polarized nation, a dose of partisan public health messaging can be more effective. (Stanford Business)

Rasika Mathias wants to level the playing field of genetic studies—and make the benefits of personalized medicine available to all. (Hopkins Medicine)

Economics and technology are driving big changes in patient care. (Penn Law Journal)

The initial coronavirus surge has passed, but the mental health fallout persists. (HBPH Magazine)

Meet the doctors who never leave the hospital. (Columbia Medicine)

A new computer model could help policymakers choose the right reopening strategy. (Stanford Business)

The coronavirus pandemic is underscoring the  importance of caring for prisoners and their communities. (Columbia Public Health)

Injury prevention expert Sue Baker has spent her career making the world a safer place. (HBPH Magazine)

In a career spanning decades and continents, Henry Mosley quietly transformed the field of public health. (HBPH Magazine)

A psychologist combats an upsurge of hopelessness. (art|sci)

A simple classroom management strategy pays dividends for a lifetime. (HBPH Magazine)

First, it was a death sentence. Then, a life sentence. Now researchers aim to rid the world of the virus once and for all. (Seek)

The latest health impact of a warming planet? Climate gentrification—the pricing of vulnerable populations out of their homes. (HBPH Magazine)

Researchers delve into the expanding opioid epidemic—and try to combat it. (Think)

A vitamin deficiency threatens the vision and lives of millions of children in sub-Saharan Africa. Biofortified staple crops could provide a nutritional safety net. (HBPH Magazine)

Columbia University’s College of Dental Medicine goes abroad. (Columbia Dental Medicine)

Janis Luque had all but given up on doctors. Then she found the right one. (NYU Langone News & Views)

Face blindness leads neuroscientists into uncharted nooks of the brain. (Seek)

A biotech startup tries to thwart an emerging health crisis and develop a new model for vaccines. (Penn Law Journal)

Searching for the genetic roots of speech disorders. (art|sci)

Do the dangers of concussion among our nation’s youth outweigh the benefits of contact sports? (At Buffalo)

High-tech gear helps brain surgeons operate more safely and effectively. (Biomedical Computation Review)  

Discovering exactly how insulin interacts with cells could point researchers toward new, improved treatments for diabetes and other diseases. (Think)

Want to keep your aging brain in tip-top shape? Don’t get too excited. (Arts & Sciences)

A newly discovered cognitive impairment scrambles the brain’s ability to perceive letters and numbers. (Arts & Sciences)

How the FDA uses computational modeling to improve health and safety. (Biomedical Computation Review)

Pianist and management professor Frank Barrett spreads the lessons of jazz far and wide. (Think)

Immersive multimedia events blend music and light to create multisensory magic. (Berklee Today)

The Museum of Jewish Montreal builds on the city’s rich Jewish heritage to support arts, culture, and community-building. (CANVAS)

Titmouse animation studio flies high. (Visual Arts Journal)

With help from famed architect William Pedersen, a multibillion dollar project is transforming the New York City skyline. (Minnesota Alumni)

Dan Farkas subjects kids’ toys to Borg-like modifications, then makes music with them. (Wired)

Celebrating 30 years of pioneering computer art. (Visual Arts Journal)

Loosening up artists’ residencies. (Visual Arts Journal)

A multimedia show uses an anxiety-inducing score and set to bring audience members face to face with some of America’s classic conspiracies. (The Guardian)

Best-selling author David Nasaw brings serious historical scholarship to the widest audience he can. (Bucknell Magazine)

Recording works for the Milken Archive of Jewish American music brought renowned conductor Gerard Schwarz back to his Jewish roots. (The Milken Archive)

Young composers combine classical music with Jewish sources to find something fresh and new. (Tablet)

If talking about music is like painting with architecture, what must painting about music be like? The artist Ralph Gilbert has a few thoughts. (The Milken Archive)

A picture of his Polish grandfather’s mandolin orchestra inspired Avner Yonai to start his own. (Tablet)

Those who worked with the legendary conductor appreciated his humanity as much as his musicianship. (The Juilliard Journal)

Former U.S. poet laureate Robert Pinsky’s poetry gets a rhythm section. (Tablet)

Computer music moves out of the lab. (The Walrus)

A jazz saxophonist draws on cryptography and number theory for his riffs and rhythms. (Wired)

Many musicians can trace their choice of career to an act of teenage rebellion. But Eric Stern may be one of the few whose youthful bad-boy urges led him to opera. (The Forward)

The sound you hear over the bellyaching of purists is jazz’s fresh new blend. (The Walrus)

A closer look at ESG verification is influencing the debate over requiring corporations to report their carbon emissions. (Stanford Business)

Americans say they value open-mindedness—until their political allies listen to what the other side is saying. (Stanford Business)

A new survey offers a rare window into how the world’s largest institutional investors think about environmental, social, and governance priorities. (Stanford Business)

How a public research university in the Rocky Mountains became one of the nation’s top incubators for deep-tech startups. (Coloradan Magazine)

Shifting to clean energy means electrifying transportation. KoBold Metals is trying to get us there faster. (AMS Newsletter)

Replacing “you” with “we” can make a message less threatening—and less likely to be censored. (Stanford Business)

Want to know what, exactly, a chief sustainability or impact officer actually does? Read on. (Stanford Business)

Gen Z workers are in high demand—and they know it. Here’s how companies can recruit and retain the next generation. (HBS Alumni Bulletin)

Can Sanitation Commissioner Jessica Tisch clean up New York City? (HBS Alumni Bulletin)

People around the world are living, working, and learning longer. Get ready to upgrade your old ideas about longevity. (Stanford Business)

A Texas startup aims to decarbonize industrial chemical processing, and prevent a gigaton of carbon emissions from entering the atmosphere. (Rice Business)

Younger investors are more willing to put money behind environmental and social goals—even if it’s costlier. (Stanford Business)

Navigating the line between opportunity and uncertainty in the ESG boom. (Stanford Business)

As businesses aim to reduce their environmental impacts, circular practices that can be tracked back thousands of years are gaining momentum. (Macalester Today)

A concerned father uses venture capital to drive advances in autism care. (Denison Magazine)

Marine-energy startups tap the power of tides and waves to fuel a low-carbon future. (HBS Alumni Bulletin)

Bad news for impact investors: Selling off stocks in corporations that don’t meet your values doesn’t really change their behavior. (Stanford Business)

In the Congo, few people have access to reliable energy, and even fewer have access to formal financial services. Tony Ngumbu is trying to solve both problems with one startup. (Rice Business)

Forget about electric cars and meatless meat: If you really want to combat climate change, look to risk management and private equity. (Stanford Business)

Which businesses will thrive, and which will struggle, in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic? (The Darden Report)

You’re riding a wage escalator. And your race and gender can make a big difference in the quality of your ride. (W.P. Carey Magazine)

If you want to move a business school’s curriculum online in a single weekend due to a global health crisis, you better practice what you teach. (Stanford Business)

Tech industry millionaires are moving the Democratic Party to the left on almost every issue except government regulation. Unions beware. (Stanford Business)

Nadine Dlodlo’s community-centered approach to redeveloping a once-vibrant section of Baltimore offers a blueprint for reviving neighborhoods across the globe. (HBS Alumni Bulletin)

Don’t just tell your constituents how you’re responding to a crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic. Ask them what they want, listen to them, and engage. (Stanford Business)

We’re burying the planet in plastic waste. Can a rising tide of good ideas help pull us out? (HBS Alumni Bulletin)

There’s no silver bullet for economic recovery in Appalachia. It’s going to take a whole new ecosystem—which is just what Geoff Marietta has built. (HBS Alumni Bulletin)

Inside New York City’s push to become a global fintech capital—and what its ascent can teach other cities. (HBS Alumni Bulletin)

Behind the global apparel industry’s push for human rights. (Hue)

Fewer Americans are moving across state lines in search of higher wages. That’s a problem. (Think)

Is the electric car finally on the road to mass-market adoption? (HBS Alumni Bulletin)

Test-riding a pair of fancy-fabric action pants. (Pomona College Magazine)

The path from software developer to manager of a legal clinic for rural entrepreneurs may not seem like an obvious one. But for this professor, it all makes sense. (Gargoyle)

Defense attorneys appealing a murder conviction enlisted the expertise of statisticians to determine whether the field of firearm forensics is grounded in solid science. The answer? Not even close. (HBPH Magazine)

With democracy under siege around the globe, legal scholars seek to understand—and resist—authoritarianism. (Gargoyle)

Libertarian legal scholar Jonathan Adler pursues principle over politics. (Think)

Erin Barbato, director of the Immigrant Justice Clinic (IJC) at the University of Wisconsin Law School, has a knot in the pit of her stomach. (Gargoyle)

In the face of police brutality and mass protests, a business school asks: How can we answer the call to improve our world and address systemic racism and oppression? (Rice Business)

Dean Gillispie has spent 20 years in prison for kidnapping and rape. Former Ohio Attorney General Jim Petro has made it his job to free him. (Denison Magazine)

Activist and organizer Dante Barry talks about the people and events that shaped him, and his ongoing fight for social justice. (Monmouth Magazine)

Saliba Sarsar has dedicated his life’s work to healing the differences between Israelis and Palestinians. (Monmouth Magazine)

After witnessing terrible wrongs as a medical student, Dr. Karen Benker devoted her career to the fight for medical justice. (Pomona College Magazine)

How a small group of faculty and students helped bring gay life at Denison University out of the closet. (Denison Magazine)

Confronting a man involved in the murder of her own parents turned Noreen Deiss into an advocate for restorative justice. (Gargoyle)

The playing field is not level for men and women entering the legal profession. But as the stories of these six pioneers demonstrate, the situation has improved over the past century or so. (Gargoyle)

In which the author’s attempt to discover traces of Spain’s medieval Jewish community does not go as planned. (Kveller)

If you want to see whales, you needn’t bother chasing after them in a boat. Just pitch a tent by the St. Lawrence River and wait for them to come to you. (The Montreal Gazette)

Calm waters, green monkeys, and giant caves: Barbados has something for everyone, no matter how young. (The Boston Globe)

Istanbul was once a center of Sephardic Jewish life and music. But that energy has moved elsewhere. (The Forward)

Though only a tiny fraction of what it was in the 18th century, Barbados’s Jewish community—and its 1750 synagogue—still stand proud. (Tablet)

Bingeing on Jewish delicacies in my hometown. (The Forward)

For resort chic on a budget, pitch a tent and (sort of) rough it. (The New York Times)

A recent visit to a Muslim country raised unwelcome questions—and unnecessary fears. (Kveller)

When I was invited to drum in Ghana, I gladly accepted. Then something went wrong. (Nautilus)

A tale of love and dysentery. (Skive)

Kol Nidre gets me every time. (Tablet)

Though you’d never guess it by looking at me, I was once an African drummer. (The Forward)

Superficial? Judgmental? Who, me? (Fresh Yarn)