Biological sciences professor Caitlin Hicks Pries discusses how New England’s rainy summer will affect peak fall foliage. “It’s a bit of a Goldilocks situation where too much water can also be a bad thing,” says Hicks Pries.

Research by Professor of Sociology Brooke Harrington on financial advisers for the ultrawealthy is featured. About one-quarter of the 65 wealth managers she interviewed expressed qualms about the work they did reducing the tax liabilities for those clients.