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The Genuinely Hard Problems scheme might usefully chart a course for other institutions to follow.
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Anjana Ahuja
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Science students at Harvard University already belong to an elite, but this term, there is a super-elite among them.
Fifteen have been selected to ruminate on major unsolved enigmas, such as how life sprang from non-living matter or whether it is truly possible to reverse ageing.
