Does AI understand?

It may be getting smarter, but it’s not thinking like humans (yet), say experts

Harvard Gazette • harvard
July 16, 2025 ~7 min

Highly sensitive science

David Ginty probes pleasure and pain to shed light on autism and other conditions

Harvard Gazette • harvard
July 2, 2025 ~11 min


Can AI be as irrational as we are? (Or even more so?)

Psychologists found OpenAI’s GPT-4o showing humanlike patterns of cognitive dissonance, sensitivity to free choice

Harvard Gazette • harvard
July 1, 2025 ~8 min

Stealing a ‘superpower’

Study finds some sea slugs consume algae, incorporate photosynthetic parts into their own bodies to keep producing nutrients

Harvard Gazette • harvard
June 25, 2025 ~7 min

Reading skills — and struggles — manifest earlier than thought

New finding underscores need to intervene before kids start school, say researchers

Harvard Gazette • harvard
June 23, 2025 ~7 min

Shining light on scientific superstar

Vera Rubin, whose dark-matter discoveries changed astronomy and physics, gets her due with namesake observatory, commemorative quarter

Harvard Gazette • harvard
June 20, 2025 ~6 min

A taste for microbes

New research reveals how the octopus uses arms to sense chemical clues from microbiomes

Harvard Gazette • harvard
June 20, 2025 ~8 min

Out of sight but not out of mind

By 15 months, children can learn the names of objects they’ve never seen

Harvard Gazette • harvard
June 16, 2025 ~7 min


A step in fight against tick-borne disease

New molecular method differentiates sexes, reveals whether females have mated

Harvard Gazette • harvard
June 11, 2025 ~5 min

Still waiting

75 years after Fermi’s paradox, are we any closer to finding extraterrestrial life?

Harvard Gazette • harvard
June 10, 2025 ~6 min

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