Category: 7. SciTech

Tina Grotzer: Once you start to know what your mind can do that’s so much better than AI, it kind of makes sense that some tasks are well-relegated to AI and other tasks are not. That is going to be a constant challenge to figure out those relationships and lines over…

Harvard stem cell biologists have discovered a way to grow the type of brain cells that degenerate in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and suffer damage in spinal cord injuries.

In a paper published in the journal eLife, researchers engineered a cocktail of molecular signals…

Have reports of AI replacing mathematicians been greatly exaggerated?

Artificial intelligence has attained an impressive series of feats — solving problems from the International Math Olympiad, conducting encyclopedic surveys of academic literature, and even finding solutions to some…

Imagine this: A person walks into a room and knocks a ball off a table. 

Did you imagine the gender of the person? The color of the ball? The position of the person relative to the ball?

Yes and no, says cognitive scientist Tomer Ullman, the Morris Kahn Associate Professor of…

Here’s a statistical challenge worthy of a grandmaster: How do you create an accurate ranking system when the best players usually don’t win?

This is the conundrum of elite chess. The stronger the players, the greater the odds of the match ending in a draw.

“What ended up…

Federal and state governments have outlawed “revenge porn,” the nonconsensual online sharing of sexual images of individuals, often by former partners. Last year, South Carolina became the 50th state to enact such a law.

The recent rise of easy-to-use generative AI tools, however, has…

Harvard scientists have invented a way to create a tiny “time capsule” in cells, one that preserves an archival record of gene expression that can be retrieved long after it normally disappears.

“It’s like a time machine for the cell,” said Fei Chen, associate professor of stem…

To get a better look at brains, Harvard researchers are making microscopes work more like human eyes.