The First Proof consortium has repeatedly challenged AI systems to crack 10 tough research math problems. In the latest round of results, AI systems collectively solved all 10 but still lagged in the ability to clearly communicate and document their results.
I think it’s very important for us as classicists to take a work like Nolan’s ‘Odyssey’ as a work of adaptation that is aiming to produce new relations with antiquity and not to think about it in overly deferential terms, or in terms of fidelity or accuracy,” said classics professor Emily Greenwood.
The findings unlock a path to harnessing ultra-fast magnetic materials and cleaner computer memory and hardware — enabling performance gains that could solve major energy bottlenecks facing modern data centers.
A new exhibit at Harvard’s Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, opening Friday, probes how calipers and spirometers never simply recorded differences. They helped invent them.
Cooperation can make us stronger, building alliances and increasing the availability of resources. A recent symposium hosted by the Human Evolutionary Biology Initiative brought together researchers to examine this principle, sharing studies and findings on intergroup cooperation from a variety of fields.
Harvard geoscientists reported that organic matter harvested from certain meteorites bears chemical traces of “primitive oxygen reservoirs” that have changed little since the birth of our solar system. The findings help trace the origins of organic matter that meteorites may have delivered to a young Earth, supplying the planet with ingredients essential for life.
Singer Mavis Staples, actress Angela Bassett, and soccer star Didier Drogba were among the honorees presented with W.E.B. Du Bois Medals Thursday at Sanders Theatre. The annual ceremony, hosted by the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, recognizes outstanding contributions to Black history and culture.
“We will keep working at it until we get it right,” the FAS dean said.
When Hoon Lee ’94 received the script for the role of Lee in Zoe Kazan’s Netflix adaptation of “East of Eden,” he was prepared to be skeptical. Decades in the industry had left the Massachusetts-born actor wary of roles that perpetuate Asian stereotypes.
A recent study from the Harvard Laboratory for Developmental Studies describes how games aimed at improving social skills, played in preschool settings, boost social-cognitive development for Brazilian children living near or below the poverty line.
Luiselli, an incoming professor of English, was nominated for her novel “Beginning Middle End.” It tells the story of a mother and 12-year-old daughter starting over in Sicily after the elder’s divorce, as they figure out how to rebuild amid encounters with the island’s daily life and its winds, waters, and volcanoes.