When David Bakalar first set foot at Harvard, he was a 17-year-old child of immigrants commuting by bus from Lynn, his $500 “nonresident scholarship” covering tuition and a study space at Leverett House but not room and board.
An earthquake alert system mines data from billions of Android phones, the most common smartphone in the world, and easily the most popular in less wealthy nations.
Grantees cross the sciences, range from work in quantum to ‘smart skins’
Humans are still doing the heavy lifting, despite rapid AI progress
Prospective buyers are most concerned about where to plug in, researchers say
FAS Dean Hopi Hoekstra helped dedicate a plaque at the teenage home of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin.
Exhibit showcases tools that powered Revolutionary America
CubeSat launch from Cape Canaveral caps project that began in 2018
The honor is given annually to College seniors who demonstrate ‘intellectual adventure’
A new AI tool called Empirical Research Assistance can automatically write high-performance scientific software, even outperforming software written by experts.
About 1 billion kilograms of wool gets wasted per year. Waste wool can come from farmers, from textile mills before the wool gets made into clothes and used by consumers. Environmental Science & Engineering concentrator Mia Montrose employed waste wool to make building cladding panels as an example of sustainable materials.