Menstrual tracking apps have become all the rage, leading the growing field of “femtech” that claims to help women understand — and regulate — their bodies. But these apps may promise more than they deliver — and even be harmful to women.
The astrochemist traveled to Vatican City to accept the award in a September 24 ceremony.
The advance of artificial intelligence, we are told, is inevitable. Nothing can stop AI chatbots from entering classrooms, nursing homes, workplaces, even bedrooms.
Henry David Thoreau famously went to Walden Pond to live deliberately. But for far longer, he pursued a lesser-known obsession: observing scientifically.
Say political engagement could be increased in a certain society by the introduction of effective artificial intelligence tools — but those living there would have fewer in-person interactions. Should such tools be adopted?
The assistant professor in the Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies has been named this year’s winner of a distinguished annual honor for artists with strong ties to New England.
This past summer, three Harvard students helped transport Manhattan audiences to Parisian rooftops, opera house dressing rooms, and a subterranean labyrinth in “Masquerade,” an immersive adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “The Phantom of the Opera.”
For most of his life, Daniel Lieberman has dedicated his mind to studying the evolution of the human body. In his latest project, he also devoted his body — specifically his digestive tract — to science.
When Paul Giamatti was 7 years old, his mother told him the story of the Eugène Ionesco play “Rhinoceros.” Giamatti was a monster enthusiast at the time, and something about the idea of a man turning into a rhinoceros lodged in his brain.
Sixteen years ago, an invasive pest called the woolly adelgid arrived at Harvard Forest and slowly began to devastate its the eastern hemlocks — as they had done in forcce elsewhere. Since then, Harvard Forest scientists have begun to study how to manage the demise of its so-called foundation species.
The John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities and associate professor of African and African American Studies is one of eight U.S. visual arts writers to receive the award this year.