Tag: Harvard
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Harvard cracks DNA storage, crams 700 terabytes of data into a single gram
ExtremeTech: Harvard cracks DNA storage, crams 700 terabytes of data into a single gram A bioengineer and geneticist at Harvard’s Wyss Institute have successfully stored 5.5 petabits of data — around 700 terabytes — in a single gram of DNA, smashing the previous DNA data density record by a thousand times. The work, carried out…
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Morality Check: When Fad Science Is Bad Science
Wall Street Journal: Morality Check: When Fad Science Is Bad Science Harvard University announced last Friday that its Standing Committee on Professional Conduct had found Marc Hauser, one of the school's most prominent scholars, guilty of multiple counts of "scientific misconduct." The revelation came after a three-year inquiry into allegations that the professor had fudged…
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Harvard’s Crisis of Faith
Newsweek: Harvard’s Crisis of Faith Can a secular university embrace religion without sacrificing its soul? It doesn't take a degree from Harvard to see that in today's world, a person needs to know something about religion. The conflicts between the Israelis and the Palestinians; between Christians, Muslims, and animists in Africa; between religious conservatives and…