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Feeling Lonely? An Attentive Listener Is an AI Prompt Away

As loneliness rises, many people are turning to chatbots for companionship. Research by Julian De Freitas, PhD '21, shows that AI can alleviate loneliness, at least in the short term.

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"Get Off Your Phone": Love in the Digital Age

Technology is transforming relationships, says Professor Debora Spar, PhD '90, but algorithms can't replace authentic human connection. She discusses her research on the future of marriage and what these shifts mean for all of us.

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Harvard Business School Professor Debora Spar, PhD '90
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Through AI, New Dimensions in Physics

Aurélien Dersy is a sixth-year PhD student in physics at Harvard Griffin GSAS whose work straddles high-energy theoretical physics and artificial intelligence. 

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a collision event recorded by the CMS detector in 2012 corresponding to a decay of a Higgs boson into two photons
A collision event recorded by the CMS detector in 2012 corresponding to a decay of a Higgs boson into two photons
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Building Collaborations that Harness the Strength of the Human Mind

Landing on the moon required the collective effort of hundreds of thousands of people. Understanding how humans achieve these kinds of extraordinary feats is at the core of psychology PhD student Yang Xiang’s research on how our minds navigate collaboration. 

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Sara Seager's Search for Life Beyond Earth

World-renowned exoplanet researcher Sara Seager, PhD '94, is searching for Earth 2.0 and life beyond Earth, even in inhospitable atmospheres like the clouds of Venus.

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Photograph of astronomer and planetary scientist Sara Seager, taken at the 2016 Gordon Cain Conference, "Life in the Universe: Past and Present", 26 May 2016 at the Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
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What Unites Americans?

Conversation moderated by Nien-hê Hsieh, PhD '00, the Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, searches for more productive national ties. 

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Desireé Melonas (from left), Harris Mylonas, Silvia Foster-Frau, and Connor Flynn
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