🔬 Science Jul 10, 2026 · Elizabeth Zonarich

View Channel →

0 0 Save Read Full Article Source ↗ 👁 4 💬 0

Illustration by Liz Zonarich/Harvard Staff



Science & Tech


Is that bot a Pomeranian or a wolf — and who to sue when it ‘bites’?








Isabella Roden

Harvard Correspondent




July 10, 2026


long read




Legal expert says canine law provides useful framework for leashing AI






Recently there has been a remarkable advance in how artificial intelligence can directly impact the world: A layperson can vi

Sign in to join the discussion

Do other animals call each other by name?

Latest from Live Science · 22h ago

One Type of Diabetes Responds Better to a Weekly GLP-1 Drug Than to Insulin

ScienceAlert · 23h ago

📰

Genomic research published in 2026 revealed that koalas suffered a severe population collapse beginning about 100,000 years ago—before humans reached Australia—as glacial cooling and aridification destroyed and fragmented their forest habitat. Every living koala descends from the small eastern population that survived, then expanded and split into today’s major populations as forests recovered after the last ice age.

ScienceBlog.com · 23h ago

Curiosity Blog, Sols 4982–4987: Back to Our Regularly Scheduled Programming

NASA · 23h ago

📰

A marine worm with no mouth and no gut makes its own enzyme for digesting the bioplastic its skin bacteria build up, and the same kind of enzyme turned up in 66 more animal species across nine phyla, from a sponge to an earthworm to a springtail

ScienceBlog.com · 1d ago

📰

Black holes keep tearing these stars apart, but they survive

Latest Science News -- ScienceDaily · 1d ago