Why AI fairness conversations must include disabled people
Tech offers promise to help yet too often perpetuates ableism, say researchers. It doesn’t have to be this way.
April 3, 2024 • ~11 min
How did you get that frog to float?
Ever-creative, Nobel laureate in physics Andre Geim extols fun, fanciful side of very serious science
April 2, 2024 • ~5 min
Lifting a few with my chatbot
Sociologist Sherry Turkle warns against growing trend of turning to AI for companionship, counsel
March 27, 2024 • ~5 min
Hate mosquitoes? Who doesn’t? But maybe we shouldn’t.
Entomologist says there is much scientists don’t know about habitats, habits, impacts on their environments
March 26, 2024 • ~7 min
‘Harvard Thinking’: Climate alignment is no easy task
Experts at the Salata Institute outline tensions between global and local priorities
March 13, 2024 • ~26 min
A playbook for policy change
Leah Stokes turns a love for the wilderness into a commitment to help mitigate climate change
March 5, 2024 • ~10 min
Under pressure
New tool for precise measurement of superconductors
March 1, 2024 • ~5 min
Glimpse into how mind may affect healing
Study finds bruising fades faster in patients who are led to believe more time has passed than actually has
March 1, 2024 • ~6 min
Herbaria’s use and importance grows with climate change
In race against extinction, new agreement supports Harvard’s work to analyze and digitize its medicinal plant collections
Feb. 26, 2024 • ~8 min
Harvard physicists create a new phase of matter
First demonstration of non-Abelian anyons in a quantum processor
Feb. 20, 2024 • ~5 min
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