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In the depths of the central Pacific Ocean, nearly 2,400 meters below the surface, scientists found a new species of deep-sea limpet clinging to a sunken log.

The discovery represents a significant find in the study of the deep ocean, the largest ecosystem on the planet but one that is…

At crunch time at the end of fall semester, Easton Singer ’26 had many things piled on his plate: an orchestra performance, final exams and projects, a senior thesis, and applications for graduate school. Yet he put all that aside to spend a precious Saturday in the middle of reading period…

It began with some intriguing scientific discoveries.

A team of researchers from the Broad Institute and Harvard began to suspect nearly two decades ago that so-called “emerging diseases” such as Ebola and Lassa virus were not quite what they seemed. Rather than being newly evolved…

The debate over artificial superintelligence (ASI) can tend toward extremes, with predictions that it will either save humanity or destroy it. E. Glen Weyl has a different perspective: Superintelligence is already here, and it has been for thousands of years.

Speaking Nov. 19 at the Berkman…

Brace yourself for a hot story about plant sex.

Harvard researchers have discovered that cycads — an ancient lineage of seed plants — heat their reproductive organs to attract beetle pollinators, which in turn evolved specialized infrared sensors. First male cycads warm their pollen…

In the movies, a comatose patient can be unreachable one moment, just fine the next.

“That suggests there’s a clearly demarcated border between unconsciousness and consciousness,” said Joseph Giacino, a professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation at Harvard Medical School…

Picture a scientist with a provocative hypothesis — something that defies conventional wisdom or verges on the outlandish.

Supporting the pursuit of that big, bold claim is the goal of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science’s new Extraordinary Claims, Extraordinary Evidence (ECEE)…