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Pope Leo XIV presents scientific honor to astrochemist Karin Öberg

Karin Öberg, professor of astronomy and Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences, traveled to Vatican City last ...
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If AI is allowed to drive discourse, can democracy survive?

Say political engagement could be increased in a certain society by the introduction of effective artificial intelligence ...
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Finding their way in ‘Masquerade’

This past summer, three Harvard students helped transport Manhattan audiences to Parisian rooftops, opera house dressing ...
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Sky Hopinka awarded Rappaport Art Prize

The assistant professor has been named this year’s winner of a distinguished annual honor for artists with strong ties to New ...
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Alarm over menstrual tracking apps

Sarah Richardson, Aramont Professor of the History of Science and professor of studies of women, gender, and sexuality, helped analyze the popular products for BMJ (formerly the British Medical ...
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The optimal diet? Kitchen experiment leads scientist to answer

For most of his life, Daniel Lieberman has dedicated his mind to studying the evolution of the human body. In his latest ...
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‘This is really not a time to find your chatbot BFFs’

The advance of artificial intelligence, we are told, is inevitable. Nothing can stop AI chatbots from entering classrooms, nursing homes, workplaces, even bedrooms. “Almost immediately after the ...
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Rediscovering Thoreau the scientist

Henry David Thoreau famously went to Walden Pond to live deliberately. But for far longer, he pursued a lesser-known obsession: observing scientifically. Besides penning a classic work of American ...
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At Harvard Forest, doomed eastern hemlocks found to further future generations

Sixteen years ago, an invasive pest called the woolly adelgid arrived at Harvard Forest and slowly began to devastate its the ...