So, you want to learn Python? That’s cool. A lot of people are getting into it these days because it’s used for all sorts of things, from building websites to analyzing data. If you’re looking for a ...

Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States. Since researchers first established the link between diet, cholesterol and heart disease in the 1950s, risk for heart disease has been ...

My little theory is that the concept of “imprinting” in psychology can just as easily be applied to programming: Much as a baby goose decides that the first moving life-form it encounters is its ...

Rollercoaster Tycoon wasn’t the most fashionable computer game out there in 1999. But if you took a look beneath the pixels—the rickety rides, the crowds of hungry, thirsty, barfing people (and the ...

What if you could strip away the layers of abstraction that operating systems impose and interact directly with your computer’s hardware? Imagine crafting a program where every instruction is executed ...

After several decades, researchers are finally getting a grasp on when an odd and destructive type of oxygen arises in chemical reactions in living cells and certain batteries. Not all oxygen ...

In 2005, Travis Oliphant was an information scientist working on medical and biological imaging at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, when he began work on NumPy, a library that has become a ...

Predictive security uses AI to forecast data risks before they escalate, offering enterprises a path beyond reactive defenses toward proactive protection. As long as cybersecurity has been around, it ...

JavaScript’s low bar to entry has resulted in one of the richest programming language ecosystems in the world. This month’s report celebrates the bounty, while also highlighting a recent example of ...

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. Programming is a key transferable skill within the chemical sciences with applications ...

Welcome to the HBR Executive Agenda for August 14, 2025. Adi Ignatius is the editor at large at Harvard Business Review and its former editor in chief. HBR Executive delivers trusted insights and ...