Scott Duke Kominers, Columnist

Teen Rocket Scientists Offer a Peek Into the Future

Think we’re running out of things to discover? Not a chance.

May 23, 2018 at 2:00 PM UTC

Scott Duke Kominers is the MBA Class of 1960 Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and a faculty affiliate of the Harvard University department of economics.

His robot will wash your windows. — His robot will wash your windows.
Photographer: Chris Ayers/Society for Science and the Public

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