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The Daily Free Press

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Emma Clement | Graphics Editor

Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show: Kendrick Lamar brought the bars, but was it a touchdown performance?

Samantha Genzer February 10, 2025
The production was sleek, the performances were sharp and the creativity was undeniable. But when you stack it against Beyoncé, Bruno Mars, and Shakira-level halftime shows, it lacked that extra layer of spectacle that makes a Super Bowl performance legendary. Still, Lamar brought his signature storytelling, intricate visuals and undeniable talent to the biggest stage in the world, creating a show that was uniquely his.
Ballot drop box outside of the Boston Public Library entrance on Boylston Street. Infertility treatments like in vitro fertilization are being debated in light of the upcoming election. RACHEL FEINSTEIN/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

In glass and under national watch: The modern challenges of IVF

Irene Skandalakis September 23, 2024
Infertility affects millions of people in the United States, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Outside its existing legislative protections in Massachusetts, IVF has come under national scrutiny, which coincides with the upcoming presidential election.
Yvonne Tang | Senior Graphic Artist

The end of aging as we know it? | Science Says

Benjamin Pollock March 13, 2023
While aging currently coincides with a myriad of chronic health conditions — thanks to Dr. David Sinclair’s lab at Harvard—age may soon really be just a number.
23andMe saliva collection kit

Discovering your heritage through DNA testing

Khadijah Khogeer March 24, 2021
With our world becoming more diverse, taking an ancestry test can help you discover your heritage.
The race to create a COVID-19 vaccine has opened up greater transparency in the vaccine-making process, also opening the process to public scrutiny. COURTESY OF WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

Search for COVID-19 vaccine continues with promising results

Daily Free Press Staff October 29, 2020
With more than 1 million people around the world dead from COVID-19, the hunt for a vaccine is underway, and more than 100 countries are aiding its development.
Hannah Bohn

Let Your Hair Down: How to understand the impacts of race and ethnicity

Hannah Bohn September 30, 2020
Race and ethnicity force us to split who we are into separate pieces — to define ourselves through arbitrarily crafted methods built by changes in society over time.
The Backstreet Boys released their new album, “DNA,” Friday. The album features songs written by artists including Lauv, Stuart Crichton and Andy Grammer. COURTESY OF DENNIS LEUPOLD

REVIEW: Backstreet’s Back with Grammy nominated album “DNA”

Amelia Griffiths January 27, 2019
Now revitalized with an updated sound, the Backstreet Boys released their 10th game-changing album, “DNA,” on Jan. 25.
Kendrick Lamar releases his fourth studio album, “DAMN.,” on Friday. PHOTO COURTESY TOP DAWG ENTERTAINMENT

REVIEW: Kendrick Lamar’s “DAMN.” is rapper’s most introspective, artistic album

Jon Ollom April 18, 2017

Kendrick Lamar, one of the most creative minds in music today, continues to change the genre of hip-hop with his fourth studio album, “DAMN.” The album is a creative, abstract and deeply personal...

KASTRITIS: Legalizing mitochondrial therapy is necessary to save lives

KASTRITIS: Legalizing mitochondrial therapy is necessary to save lives

Elias Kastritis October 6, 2016

The United States of America has enjoyed a long history of priding itself for its innovative technological and scientific domination. Indeed, the countless academic, scientific, industrial, mathematical,...

BENNAIM: Maybe it's time to give farm-raised organs a try

BENNAIM: Maybe it’s time to give farm-raised organs a try

Amid Bennaim October 20, 2015

One of the worst situations in life is that of the patient waiting for an organ transplant. According to the United States Department of Health and Human Services, there were about 120,000 Americans waiting...

DNA evidence links five unsolved sexual assault cases to a man awaiting trial for a similar crime committed in Cambridge, officials said Tuesday. PHOTO BY OLIVIA NADEL/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Series of unsolved sexual assaults linked to Cambridge assailant

Mina Corpuz July 14, 2015

  A series of unsolved sexual assaults committed along the Charles River Esplanade and in South Boston have been linked to a man behind bars, law enforcement officials announced Tuesday at a press...

Harvard program Open Humans, a research database that allows users to share their health data with various studies, launched March 24. PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY L.E. CHARLES/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

New research initiative lets patients give Big Data their digits

Dagny Crepeau April 2, 2015

Sharing information is commonly associated with posting to social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Now, thanks to researchers from the Harvard Personal Genome Project, people can...

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