Science & Tech

A lawyer, a computer scientist, and a statistician debate ethics of artificial intelligence

Harvard lab’s research suggests at-risk kids can be identified before they ever struggle in school

Tech offers promise to help yet too often perpetuates ableism, say researchers. It doesn’t have to be this way.

Ever-creative, Nobel laureate in physics Andre Geim extols fun, fanciful side of very serious science

Sociologist Sherry Turkle warns against growing trend of turning to AI for companionship, counsel

Entomologist says there is much scientists don’t know about habitats, habits, impacts on their environments

Experts at the Salata Institute outline tensions between global and local priorities

Leah Stokes turns a love for the wilderness into a commitment to help mitigate climate change

New tool for precise measurement of superconductors

Study finds bruising fades faster in patients who are led to believe more time has passed than actually has

In race against extinction, new agreement supports Harvard’s work to analyze and digitize its medicinal plant collections

First demonstration of non-Abelian anyons in a quantum processor

Study puts fermentation, not fire, as pivot point behind our ancestors’ increasing cranial capacity

Astronomers detail oscillation of our giant neighbor

Four groundbreaking projects investigate brain development, capture raw data with AI, innovate quantum computers, and develop new models to map supernovas

Field work on the Rio Negro could help communities exposed to methylmercury protect their food web

New findings illuminate complex neuroscience behind even the simplest words, with implications for treatment of speech, language disorders

AI’s rapid rise prompts Harvard/MIT Symposium exploring excitement, potential challenges to STEM education, research

Trilobites’ soft undersides show mechanics of early ‘enrollment’ defense

Physics of V-shaped flight formations offer insights into how to improve efficiency of groups of drones, underwater vehicles

Global study by new faculty Elika Bergelson finds three key predictors of language development. They may surprise you.

Neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky says every decision, action you make is result of chain of genes, biology, experience that preceded it

Fabrication method could facilitate materials discovery

Eliminates gait freezing, a common and highly debilitating symptom

Harvard-led team helps create first molecular map for national neuroscience study

Key step toward reliable, game-changing quantum computing

Neuroscientist finds skills, temperament influenced by brain differences across breeds

Bonobos, one of our closest living animal relatives, show humanlike ability to work together outside social borders in new study

Study of crossbred butterflies suggests multiple genes involved

Data from salt flats suggest dry soil is worse than rising temperature