Harvard Science Center

Harvard Book Store, the Harvard University Division of Science, and the Harvard Library welcome Jennifer R. Vail—founder of DuPont’s first tribology research lab and a member of the senior leadership team at TA Instruments—for a discussion of her new book, Friction: A Biography, a surprising history of the fascinating science of friction. This event will take place at the […]

Harvard Book Store, the Harvard University Division of Science, and the Harvard Library welcome Nate Soares—President of MIRI and author of a large body of technical and semi-technical writing on AI alignment—for a discussion of his new book, If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All, co-written by Eliezer Yudkowsky. Soares will be […]

Harvard Book Store, the Harvard University Division of Science, and the Harvard Library welcome Matt Kaplan—science correspondent at The Economist, where he has written about everything from paleontology and parasites to virology and viticulture over the course of two decades—for a discussion of his new book, I Told You So!: Scientists Who Were Ridiculed, Exiled, and Imprisoned for Being […]

Harvard Book Store, the Harvard University Division of Science, and the Harvard Library welcome Jessica Riskin—Frances and Charles Field Professor of History at Stanford University—for a discussion of her new book, The Power of Life: The Invention of Biology and the Revolutionary Science of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck. This event will take place at the Harvard Science Center, Hall E, […]

Harvard Book Store, the Harvard University Division of Science, and the Harvard Library welcomeDr. Trisha Pasricha—Director of the Institute for Gut-Brain Research at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and writer of the weekly "Ask a Doctor" column for The Washington Post —for a discussion of her new book, You've Been […]

Harvard Book Store, the Harvard University Division of Science, and the Harvard Library welcome Jeffrey Marlow—professor of biology at Boston University—for an inspiring presentation of his new book, The Dark Frontier: Unlocking the Secrets of the Deep Sea. This event will take place at the Harvard Science Center, Hall E, located downstairs at 1 Oxford St, Cambridge. […]

Harvard Book Store, the Harvard University Division of Science, and the Harvard Library welcome Roxanne Khamsi—award-winning science journalist and a contributing writer at The Atlantic—for a discussion of her new book, Beyond Inheritance: Our Ever-Mutating Cells and a New Understanding of Health. This event will take place at the Harvard Science Center, Hall E, located downstairs at 1 Oxford […]

Harvard Book Store, the Harvard University Division of Science, and the Harvard Library welcome Chanda Prescod-Weinstein—prize-winning author of The Disordered Cosmos, and an associate professor of physics and astronomy and core faculty in women’s and gender studies at the University of New Hampshire—for a discussion of her new book, The Edge of Space-Time: Particles, Poetry, and the Cosmic Dream […]