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There's nothing like an outbreak of Ebola virus to guarantee screaming headlines. That's largely due to the mid-1990s bestseller The Hot Zone, which described the disease's horrifying course in gruesome detail, leaving many readers to believe that Ebola posed a looming threat to human existence. The...
Unless, that is, you're a gorilla. Over the past decade or so, tens of thousands of the great apes have died of Ebola in central Africa, along with similar numbers of chimpanzees. That the disease was responsible was established in a paper published in December in Science. Now a...
As students in the popular course Science A-41, “The Einstein Revolution” worked through their last round of problem sets and paper drafts of the semester, another Einstein expert was on campus to weigh in on the innovative mind of the renowned physicist. Walter S...
A professor at the Kennedy School of Government became the first to win a newly established prize from the Social Science Research Council, an international academic organization, for his interdisciplinary work in global economic development. From a pool of 31 nominees, Hariri Professor of International Political Economy Dani Rodrik ?...
Nigerian author Wole Soyinka, the first African to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, argued that the Arab section of Sudan must confront its past and acknowledge its role in the violence in Darfur instead of remaining in a “state of amnesia.” In a...