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, […]