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<p style="text-align:justify">A few years ago, astronomers uncovered one of the Milky Way&rsquo;s greatest secrets:&nbsp; an enormous, wave-shaped chain of gaseous clouds in our sun&rsquo;s backyard, giving birth to clusters of stars along the spiral arm of the galaxy we call home. Naming this astonishing new structure the <a href="https://sites.google.com/cfa.harvard.edu/radcliffewave/home"><u>Radcliffe Wave</u></a>, the team now reports in Nature&nbsp;that the Radcliffe Wave not only looks like a wave, but also moves like one ...

Take away modern navigation tools — a smartphone or even a compass — and getting from point A to B can be tricky. Just ask the 28 students in a course on predictive systems, who were tasked with doing just that in a place many knew intimately: Harvard Yard. The assignment in Alyssa Goodman’s Gen Ed class sounded simple enough, with steps such as “head 211 feet at nine degrees east of south,” but carrying them out was challenging on several levels. “We were supposed to just use our intuition,” said Neil Khurana ’22. “We’re learning about certain navigation techniques that t...