People who can remember events in greater detail and for longer tend to pay more attention and observe more details surrounding objects and events. They may also have superior recall skills. Genes play an additional role in why some…
The eyes of the footballing world will be on Germany this summer as the country hosts the 2024 UEFA European Championship. For…
Mosquitoes are found all over the world, primarily thriving in moist and humid tropical regions. However, there are also places in the world (including a group of tropical islands), where mosquitoes are missing entirely or find it quite…
Western portrayal of the East as exotic, despite being heavily influenced by power dynamics and colonialism, is critiqued for perpetuating stereotypes.
Orientalism is a term that refers to the Western perception and representation of…
Scholars at Harvard tell their stories in the Experience series.
When George Whitesides started as a teenage technician in his father’s Kentucky lab in the early 1950s, the bond was immediate — and lasting.
Today one of the world’s most influential chemists,…
ANTONY J. BLINKEN, SECRETARY OF…
It’s one thing to dream up a next-generation quantum internet capable of sending highly complex, hacker-proof information around the world at ultra-fast speeds. It’s quite another to physically show it’s possible.
That’s exactly what Harvard physicists have done, using existing…
Mayflies live for only a day. Galapagos tortoises can reach up to age 170. The Greenland shark holds the world record at over 400 years of life.
Venki Ramakrishnan, Nobel laureate and author of the newly released “Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality,”…
A cubic millimeter of brain tissue may not sound like much. But considering that that tiny square contains 57,000 cells, 230 millimeters of blood vessels, and 150 million synapses, all amounting to 1,400 terabytes of data, Harvard and Google researchers have just accomplished something…
While moderating a talk on artificial intelligence last week, Latanya Sweeney posed a thought experiment. Picture three to five years from now. AI companies are continuing to scrape the internet for data to feed their large language models. But unlike today’s internet, which is largely…