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This remarkable breakthrough is sure to usher in a new generation of robots.

An Ivy League education without the Ivy League price tag. 

Don’t settle for comfortable and familiar thoughts, reach for what you don’t know, says Harvard professor Stephen Greenblatt.

Why do people have the same fights, over and over again? That’s the repetition compulsion, a deeply ingrained psychological phenomenon—but not so deep that it can’t be beaten.

Haggling over a number? That’s a terrible way for people to negotiate, says Harvard International Negotiation Project head honcho Dan Shapiro.

The finance sector often lives up to its bad reputation, but here’s how a 2000-year-old piece of wisdom can help rehabilitate the way people and corporations think about money.

A groundbreaking study from a Harvard University team suggests that monogamy may be genetically programmed within some mammals.

US scientists fearing for Earth’s climate future begin testing solar geoengineering. The consequences may be terrifying — which is exactly why we need these small-scale experiments.

They have the same feelings as normal people. It’s how they make decisions that’s different.   

This technique could have applications in pain management and addiction treatment.   

Theaters today seem like hallowed ground, says Harvard’s Diane Paulus, but that’s not their natural state. Once, they had the same atmosphere as sport: visceral, alive, and indebted to its audience. How can we get back there?

How do we make fair contracts? These guys figured it out, and their work has implications in ethical and business questions about companies like Enron and privatized prisons.

Find a penny, pick it up, all year long, you’ll have that f*cking penny. There is a mounting consensus that the US should retire its tiniest coin. 

Researchers create a new theory of time that goes against established physics.

Job automation won’t be as bad as we think, so we need to learn how to stop working and prepare so we’re not dragged into the future kicking and screaming.    

Being able to rewrite DNA as we wish could give us almost god-like power over all life on earth.  

Think happy, be happy? Maybe not. Harvard psychologist Susan David examines the backlash effect of forced positivity in our lives.

A team of Harvard researchers 3D prints a fully autonomous octopus-like robot that runs on a chemical reaction.

Who are you? Good question. Harvard professor Michael Puett explores the idea of the “self”, and how what you believe to be your true nature may actually just be patterns you’ve fallen into.