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One of the more baffling COVID symptoms is the loss of the sense of smell, which can persist long after the virus fades. According to research from Mass Eye and Ear, more than 20 million COVID patients lost smell or taste in 2021 alone. Roughly…

What tricks can organic molecules be taught to help solve our planet’s biggest problems?

That’s the question driving Assistant Professor Richard Y. Liu ’15 as he pushes the frontiers of organic chemistry in pursuit of cleaner synthesis,…

The pelvis is often called the keystone of upright locomotion. More than any other part of our lower body, it has been radically altered over millions of years, allowing our ancestors to become the bipeds who trekked and settled across the…

Paola Arlotta holds up a vial of clear fluid swirling with tiny orbs. When she shakes her wrist, the shapes flutter like the contents of a snow globe.

“Those small spheres swirling around are actually tiny pieces of human cerebral…

Human beings can juggle up to 10 balls at once. But how many can they move through the air with their imaginations?

The answer, published last month in Nature Communications, astonished even the researchers pursuing the question. The…

Among the many wonders of the brain is its ability to master movements through practice — a dance step, piano sonata, or tying our shoes.

For decades, neuroscientists have known that these tasks require a cluster of brain areas known as the…

The punched card, a paper instrument invented 300 years ago to automate looms, helped create a technology that most of us today can’t live without: computers.

A new Houghton Library exhibition — “The Punched Card from the Industrial…

For cognitive neuroscientist Nadine Gaab, the termination of a five-year grant one year before it was scheduled to end couldn’t have come at a worse moment. As part of a study aimed at understanding the co-development of math and reading…

When Michael Brenner taught the graduate-level class “Applied Mathematics 201” in fall 2023, the course’s nonlinear partial differential equations were too tough for artificial intelligence. AI managed to solve just 30 to 50 percent of the…

Executive function — top-down processes by which the human mind controls behavior, regulating thoughts and actions — have long been studied using a standard set of tools, with these assessments being included in national and international…