‘Silicon Valley has seen a ghost’
To a packed audience, author of “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies” talks real stakes of “superhuman” AI threats.
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The oyster’s invisible architects
For an oyster, creating an internal environment for calcification that forms its distinctive hard shell is essential. But new Harvard research has found that these bivalves may outsource the work.
Assignment: Walk that robot across campus
Three robots walked into the Science Center, their human handlers trailing several feet behind. Within seconds, a crowd circled the cute one, a jaunty silver contraption.
Inside the very hungry brains of preschoolers
Childhood is understood as a time to learn and grow. What Christopher Kuzawa’s research shows is that learning and growing are interconnected.
Study suggests healing skin without scarring may be possible
New findings by Harvard stem cell biologists suggest it may be possible in the future to regrow wounded skin without scarring.
Class curiosity spouts river thesis
Can a river be a living entity? Harvard College senior Hassan Looky, a joint concentrator in anthropology and history, is asking this very question as he focuses his thesis on the rights of the Yarra River (Birrarung) in Melbourne, Australia.
How does dopamine shape our choices? Thesis investigates
Neurobiology concentrator Sean Meng ’26 is fascinated by how individuals see the world. He first became aware of how differently people can experience the same environment while serving as a teaching assistant at a school in Lawrence, Massachusetts. There, he met Elmer, a first grader with severe autism who was, for the most part, overlooked. After spending more time with him, Meng found that Elmer truly “was seeing the world in very different ways.”