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  1. Crowds visiting Luna Park at Coney Island, New York, in the early 1900s could purchase tickets to view infants resting in “isolettes,” early versions of the incubator.
    Connections Issue Winter 2017

    Soft Touch

    The good medicine of gentle contact with our skin

  2. The Lovers by Merse
    The Science of Emotion Issue Summer 2011

    The Look of Love

    Love's many splendors begin with empathy and attachment

  3. Harvard University shield
    Wounded, Deeply Issue Autumn 2012

    Tinker, Tailor

    An HMS surgeon looked to engineering to aid the severely burned

  6. Astronaut outside a spaceship
    Space Savers Issue Spring 2012

    Blues Cues

    Researchers cast a little light on the subject of sleep

  7. X-ray of a bug
    Space Savers Issue Spring 2012

    Express Yourself

    Our chromosomes bear creative, even outlandish, names. Who knew?

  8. Not Inconceivable
    Ethics Issue Autumn 2016

    Not Inconceivable

    Amid a growing range of reproductive technologies, ethicists confront questions arising from access and application

  9. Schoolchildren at an event at the U.S. Department of Education in Washington, D.C., wait for their chance to question astronauts.
    Space Savers Issue Spring 2012

    On Course

    Space-based research instills a passion for science in the next generation

  10. The six founders of neurobiology at HMS (center image: clockwise from left, standing): Edwin Furshpan, Stephen Kuffler, David Hubel, Torsten Wiesel, Edward Kravitz, and David Potter
    Ethics Issue Autumn 2016

    On Our Mind

    The multidisciplinary study of the brain got its start at HMS more than fifty years ago

  14. Arial view illustration of neighboring houses, one in camoflauge.
    The Cost of Conflict Issue Spring 2018

    Here, Yet Not Here

    When traumatic events etch themselves in the brain, behavior, well-being, and even the perception of reality can become altered, disrupting daily life

  15. Military vehicles traveling over desert terrain with mountains in the distance
    The Cost of Conflict Issue Spring 2018

    Life and Limb

    Prosthetics research is being fueled by new thinking, new materials, and new demands from those who rely on them