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Anthropic says Claude designed a quantum circuit with 17 times fewer gates after a 53-hour experiment with Harvard and QuEra researchers. The cost is 12 percent more qubits than the smallest earlier design, so the saving helps only teams that can spare them.
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Harvard's endowment returned 27.1% in fiscal 2026 and reached a record $68 billion, up from $57 billion. The disclosed SpaceX and Cerebras positions total about 3.6% of the fund, so they cannot account for the whole lead over the median.
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Harvard authors report that coding agents lifted lines of code 30% and PRs 23% at about 700 firms, with no significant change in finished tickets. Commit and PR counts track only the step that sped up.
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Harvard researchers found women use AI less than men and report less workplace AI training in a survey of more than 5,000 US adults. The report says higher use is not a goal in itself, so rollout teams need a different test for who is being left out.
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Harvard's public health school fired an associate director of finance on his 15th business day, after Rosh Hashanah leave, a federal complaint alleges. The filing is one side's account and no ruling is reported, but its sequence is one managers can test their own onboarding against.
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Researchers at Harvard and other institutions say isolated quantum systems keep lasting traces of their initial states, in a Physical Review X paper. If it holds, a state that looks fully scrambled still differs from a random one in how likely it is to revisit its history.
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Labor Department investigators have subpoenaed nine universities, Harvard and MIT among them, over J-1 visas held by foreign postdocs. The White House did not immediately source Vance's case, a 61% J-1 rate at the schools against a 38% national average.
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Mengfei He of Harvard and colleagues found random flow fluctuations let a soft cone valve close at about a tenth of the pressure smooth flow needs. Pig mitral valves also closed against backflow, but the noise effect was shown only in the cone, so its role in a living heart is untested.
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The order was never published, so the record is a sequence: Vought pushed it at a Friday meeting, the Senate Appropriations chair wrote against it on Tuesday, and by Wednesday one person familiar with the decision called it dead.
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UT Dallas and Harvard physicists report in Nature a twisted superlattice in uranium oxytelluride, a compound known since the 1960s. Its mix of ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic traits might one day help memory devices, if those advantages can be harnessed.
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Babies aged 4 to 6 months looked longer at a saliva-sharing partner when the other showed distress, in two UC Santa Barbara-led experiments. The finding reaches babies who have had little time to watch anyone kiss or share food.
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Physicists at Tampere, Harvard and TU Dresden find a chaotic quantum wave stays at least twice as likely to be in its starting state as in any comparable one. Their paper treats quantum scars, an anomaly known since 1984, as one case of a memory every quantum system keeps.
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MIT's expert committee wants AI literacy in introductory courses now, at a school where only about a quarter of surveyed students felt prepared for AI. Its June 2026 report finds faculty-student trust breaking down and asks each course to set learning goals and assessments before it writes AI rules.
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Harvard physicist Matthew Schwartz says his BootLoops toolkit helped Claude finish 30 scattering-amplitude integrals, 15 of them never completed before. His examples show the harness keeps the math checkable while collaborators still decide which questions are worth computing.
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Kyoto, Harvard and UCLA researchers find shared noise in up to 21,000 mouse visual cortex neurons slows sensory information growth without capping it. The finding challenges a 30-year-old coding assumption, but beyond the recorded cells it rests on extrapolated power laws.
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At very low temperature, quantum fluctuations can unfreeze a spin glass instead of locking it tighter, and the state on the other side is the fast, entangled one the SYK model uses to describe black holes.
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Johns Hopkins reports that mouse axons preserved by high pressure freezing are beaded at the nanoscale, and says that shape may help set how fast signals travel, a variable the textbook drawing of a smooth tube leaves out.
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A Harvard and University of Ghana team detrended two decades of district production records and found that heavy April-June rain matters about as much as dry-season drought, with both extremes tied to large-scale climate patterns.
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Ecologists working with art historians are pulling dated biological observations out of old paintings. The check on that method is deciding which brushstrokes were observed and which were invented.
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The tusk stays straight, the authors say, because its inner and outer tissues twist in opposite directions. A leading tusk specialist accepts that anatomy and rejects what the same paper says the tooth is for.
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