Workforce programs try to ride out the legal, administrative and economic headwinds of the Trump administration

Welcome to The Sonic Commons, a new series that explores the ways noise shapes our health -- and how we can create soundscapes that allow us to thrive.

World Cup players can benefit from the emerging field of penalty kick psychology. It offers lessons for us all on how to perform best under pressure.

Rural school closures are a growing trend, and Vermont, like many states, has recently proposed merging school districts to cope with falling enrollment.

Sound as a deadly force has long captivated us. But have we overlooked its true dangers?

In an era of vanishing conversation, the experience of dining out is being diminished.

An unusual collaboration between scientists and psychics could transform the treatment of auditory hallucinations.

The administration nixed some $600 million in grants for teacher training, including teacher-residency programs, citing DEI.

Catherine Coleman Flowers is helping upgrade wastewater systems in the South

Can Insight Net help the CDC predict the ebb and flow of infectious disease the way meteorologists predict the weather?

Even techno-optimists hesitate to say teaching is best left to the bots, but there’s a debate about where to draw the line.

Even techno optimists hesitate to say teaching is best left to the bots, but there’s a debate about where to draw the line.

“We must pivot,” said CDC director Walensky post-COVID. As she prepares to depart, here are the areas experts say the agency must focus on.

Music education advocates have been fighting back against school budget cuts by  claiming that that learning music makes kids better at learning other things. Numerous studies have found that students who play an instrument tend to do better in school across a wide range of subjects, but not everyone agrees that music instruction is the […]

To teach students about virus biology, immune response and pandemics, researchers created a pandemic simulation. As the real pandemic went global in early 2020, the parallels were unmistakable.

As vaccines roll out but variants spread, straining health care systems globally, experts from across the Harvard Chan School reflect on the pandemic and what it means for the future of public health.

Almost no district was truly ready to plunge into remote and distance learning full time. There is no one-size-fits-all remedy.

On a muggy September evening during festivities for the Hindu god Ganesh, Sumaira Abdulali darted through Mumbai’s crowded streets with a handheld sound meter. After 10 days of prayers and offerings...

Like many of the world's booming megacities, Mumbai is drowning in a deluge of decibels—from incessant honking to construction. Mounting evidence suggests the noise isn't just a nuisance, it's...

A sound-engineering project called Constellation looks to enhance each table’s conversation while simultaneously fuzzing out the rest.