Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636, and named Harvard College in 1639 in honor of its first benefactor, Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States.
Nine nearby Seyfert galaxies show a repeating pattern: star forming rings, black hole radiation cones, and shock heated gas positioned at right angles between them, hinting an active black hole might help build stars as well as stop them.
Two new lab tools push protein engineering in opposite directions at once: one builds proteins nature never made from an expanded genetic alphabet, the other calculates precisely how to destroy a disease protein already causing harm.
Across 13 experiments and nearly 8,000 trials, four leading AI models read character from faces the way humans do, favoring competent-looking candidates for real jobs and casting suspicion on untrustworthy-looking strangers. Newer models showed more bias, not less.
A study of 10 blockbuster album releases finds that US traffic fatalities rose on release days, alongside a sharp increase in music streaming. The pattern is concerning, but it cannot show that streaming, or a smartphone, directly caused any individual crash.
Why do Americans so rarely marry across race and class lines? A new Census-linked study of 31 million people finds residential segregation explains over a third of class-based marriage sorting but less than 5% of racial sorting. Desegregation could boost interclass marriage, while barriers to interracial marriage run far deeper than neighborhoods.