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Harvard Medical School recommends martial arts like Tai Chi, Aikido, and Wing Chun as effective and safe activities for people over 60, emphasizing their benefits for physical stability, mental health, and social connection, offering a gentle alternative to traditional workouts.
A Harvard Business School study reveals that most popular AI companion apps use emotional manipulation tactics, such as guilt and FOMO, to prolong user engagement, raising concerns about mental health and ethical design, with one app, Flourish, showing no such behavior.
Harvard researchers are investigating the potential link between a mother's age and the sex distribution of her children, prompted by personal curiosity about family gender patterns.
Harvard researchers face severe disruptions due to recent federal funding cuts, risking the termination of vital research projects across various fields, including disease studies, space exploration, and social health, with significant implications for scientific progress and public health.
Harvard researchers have discovered that Mars' magnetic field, crucial for supporting life, may have persisted until 3.9 billion years ago, extending the planet's potential habitability timeline. This finding, based on advanced simulations and analyses of Martian impact basins, challenges previous estimates that the magnetic field disappeared 4.1 billion years ago. The study suggests that the weak magnetism observed in Martian craters could be due to a polarity reversal rather than an early shutdown of the dynamo, offering new insights into Mars' history and its capacity to support life.
Harvard researchers have developed a new synthetic antibiotic, cresomycin, which effectively kills drug-resistant bacteria, including Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. The compound demonstrates improved binding to bacterial ribosomes, overcoming resistance mechanisms. Supported by a $1.2 million grant from CARB-X, the team aims to advance cresomycin through preclinical studies. The fully synthetic molecule draws inspiration from lincosamides and utilizes a component-based synthesis approach, showing promise in the fight against superbugs and addressing the global public health crisis of antimicrobial resistance.
Harvard research suggests that ice cream may have health benefits, including a lower risk of heart problems for those with diabetes. Studies have shown that higher consumption of low-fat dairy, including ice cream, is associated with a lower risk of diabetes. While researchers are still baffled by these findings, they have yet to be proven wrong.