NATO allies are inching closer to sending troops into Ukraine to train Ukrainian forces, a move that would be another blurring of a previous red line and could draw the United States and Europe more directly into the war.
Ukraine’s manpower…
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Definition, History, Explanation, Examples And Criticism » ScienceABC
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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…
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George Whitesides became giant of chemistry by keeping it simple — Harvard Gazette
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,…
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A Free, Prosperous, and Secure Future for Ukraine
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken addresses students and and professors in Igor Sikorsky Polytechnic Institute in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, May 14, 2024. (Brendan Smialowski/Pool via AP) ANTONY J. BLINKEN, SECRETARY OF…
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Glimpse of next-generation internet — Harvard Gazette
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…
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Science is making anti-aging progress. But do we want to live forever? — Harvard Gazette
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,”…
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Fighting rages near Ukrainian city of Kharkiv as Russia reports deaths in border regions
Fierce fighting was raging on Saturday for control of several Ukrainian villages near the country’s eastern border with Russia.
Further north the Russian military sought to press home its attacks in the Kharkiv region, Oleh Syniehubov, the…
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Researchers publish largest-ever dataset of neural connections — Harvard Gazette
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…
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Russia marks Victory Day parade amid Ukraine war | In Pictures News
Russia’s May 9 parade marks the Soviet Union’s defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II and has become the country’s most important public holiday.
In a speech in Moscow’s Red Square before thousands of soldiers, President Vladimir Putin…
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How is generative AI changing education? — Harvard Gazette
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…
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