Science & Medicine

At the core of the #icebucketchallenge’s mission is the role social media plays in raising awareness and funds for positive causes. But is social media an effective campaign mechanism? Is true awareness really garnered from these efforts or are these dead-end challenges?

Treating the causes of disease requires understanding patients as part of complex systems. In this piece, medical student Laura Christianson explores alternative medicine’s reach—from infertility to cardiovascular disease.

Harvard undergrad Chloe Maxmin examines the academic arguments underlying the climate change divestment movement, bringing her insights as a student activist to the conversation.

For Professor Ben Leong, his passions of teaching, technology, and business come together in a philosophy of learning from both success and failure.

Doctors may not be poets—nor do they need to be—but their use of language is critical in assuring effective patient care.

Particulate matter easily enters air streams and waterways, traveling tens of thousands of miles and making for a much more insidious form of pollutant. Here are five ways pollutants are now invading a quaint country town near you

In the post-digital age, need the relationship between technology and the humanities be a strained one?