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Mistreating a dog may come back to bite you.

Scientists have long known that childhood abuse, neglect, and trauma can have lifelong consequences in humans. Now, a study by Harvard scientists links early adversity to similar effects in our…

What does the rise of artificial intelligence mean for humanity? That was the question at the core of “How is digital technology shaping the human soul?,” a panel discussion that drew experts from computer science to comparative literature…

In the grand story of evolution, the crowning human distinction is our big brain. But our large heads have been slow to recognize a less admirable trait of Homo sapiens — self-centeredness.

The human presumption of superiority and…

Lauren Williams ’00 is a theoretical mathematician and recently she felt stuck in her research, a recurring frustration for a scholar who wrestles with difficult conceptual problems.

Then, as Williams worked quietly in her home office, she…

Researchers at the Rowland Institute at Harvard have pioneered a new way to achieve the coolest possible temperatures to image materials at sub-atomic scale. In combining the technical know-how of Rowland staff scientists with collaborators at…

When the scientist and conservationist Jane Goodall died last week, she left behind a transformed understanding of humankind’s relationship to its closest ape cousins — chimpanzees — as well as a legacy that highlights the implications of…

This is a tale of scholarly obsession. It involves a burning ship, a jungle-exploring Victorian naturalist, a Harvard biologist, and a rare butterfly.

Evolutionary biologist Andrew Berry is a scholar of Alfred Russel Wallace, a pioneering…

Every day, people turn to AI chatbots for companionship, support, and even romance. The hard part, new research suggests, is turning away.

In a working paper co-authored by Harvard Business School’s Julian De Freitas, many companion apps…

One often-repeated example illustrates the mind-boggling potential of quantum computing: A machine with 300 quantum bits could simultaneously store more information than the number of particles in the known universe.

Now process this: Harvard…

You might look at cooking as the straightforward act of preparing food to eat, but there’s a lot more to it — and a lot of it is science. In “Science and Cooking: Physics Meets Food, From Homemade to Haute Cuisine,” Harvard chemist Pia…