Harvard researchers create hybrid algorithm for NMR readings
New quantum-classical algorithm brings nuclear magnetic resonance readings closer to “near-term” quantum computing.
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African grey parrot outperforms children and college students
African grey parrot Griffin shows off his brain power, making students doubt their own.
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Harvard bee experts discuss the murder hornet threat
Bee health experts Benjamin de Bivort and James Crall discuss the murder hornet threat and other dangers facing bees.
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New research explores horizontal gene transfer
Cassandra Extavour and Leo Blondel provide the strongest suggestive evidence yet that at least part of a specific gene came from bacterial genomes.
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Genetic research offers insight into rise of first cities
Genomic analysis shows long-term genetic mixing in West Asia before the rise of the world’s first cities
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How We Feel app helps track spread of COVID-19
How We Feel app helps fill information gaps regarding the spread of the novel coronavirus.
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Modern-like tectonic plate motion on the early Earth
Harvard researchers detect some of the earliest evidence for modern-like plate motion.
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Ancient records of Bering Strait flooding offer fresh insights
Tamara Pico, a postdoctoral fellow, is using records of flooding in the Bering Strait to make inferences about how the ice sheets that covered North America responded to the warming climate, and how their melting might have contributed to climate changes.
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Uncovering the switch that controls brain state
A team of researchers led by two Harvard alumni uncover a switch that controls brain states.
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How humans’ sense of ‘intuitive physics’ touches fictional worlds
A Harvard study is exploring the way humans’ sense of “intuitive physics” of the real world leaves fingerprints on the fictional universes we create.
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