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Scholars and strategists sound alarm on voting rights

As part of the children’s choir at the historic Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church in Selma, Ala., Terri Sewell would watch as John ...
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Harvard awarded $37M National Science Foundation grant for fault-tolerant quantum computing

The institute will bring together 39 researchers across fields including mathematics, computer science, engineering, physics, ...
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Harvard scientists develop new method to map RNA variants

Harvard researchers have unveiled a new way to map the molecular activity in complex tissues that can reveal which specific ...
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Lab-grown brain ‘organoids’ set longevity record

Harvard stem cell scientists reported a new record for sustaining human brain “organoids.” The cell cultures were kept for more than five years. Lab-grown organoids replicated the developmental stages ...
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Haim Sompolinsky wins top physics prize

Haim Sompolinsky, a Harvard theoretical physicist and neuroscientist, has won the Dirac Medal and Prize, one of the highest honors in physics. Also announced over the weekend as recipients of the 2026 ...
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Sean Ono Lennon talks human empathy, AI with Harvard fellows

AI chatbots appear to be perfectly friendly and empathetic. Where does that leave the value of bona fide human companionship, with all its limitations and flaws? Two Harvard-affiliated researchers ...
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Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences ...
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Where undergrads grow into scientists

Kyla Ritchie, a rising senior at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, spent the summer studying fungi and plant roots at Harvard Forest. Carlos Sanchez/Harvard FAS Staff Photographer Deep ...