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A study from Columbia University reveals that losing close family members may accelerate biological aging, with implications for long-term health and longevity.
Jul 30, 2024
A new study challenges the popular idea that the inhabitants of Rapa Nui, commonly known as Easter Island, committed "ecocide" by exhausting their resources and causing a population collapse.
Jun 24, 2024
A new study from Columbia University provides important insights into the prevalence of long COVID and the factors that influence recovery time.
Jun 17, 2024
A massive earthquake that struck 2,500 years ago caused one of the world's largest rivers, the Ganges, to abruptly change course, according to a new study published in the journal Nature Communications.
Jun 17, 2024
Headline: Unveiling the Deadly Mechanism Behind COVID-19 Lung Damage: Columbia Researchers Identify Ferroptosis as the Culprit Researchers at Columbia and the…
May 20, 2024
A new study from orthopedic scientists and biomedical engineers at Columbia University indicates that a common practice among shoulder surgeons of removing a tissue called the bursa during rotator cuff surgery may be hindering the success of the procedure.
Apr 26, 2024
Researchers led by Columbia University's Kristin Baldwin have successfully created mice with hybrid brains, combining mouse and rat neurons, that can sense odors using their rat neurons.
Apr 26, 2024
A new study led by researchers from Columbia Engineering has shed light on how the brain manages to quickly shift between different activities and behaviors.
Mar 8, 2024
In a troubling new study, researchers have found that nearly 2 million incarcerated people across the United States are being exposed to potentially life-threatening combinations of heat and humidity.
Mar 5, 2024
Participants in the Framingham Heart Study who achieved higher levels of education tended to age more slowly and went on to live longer lives as compared to…
Mar 2, 2024
Why do men and women seem so different? According to a study, a wide range of gender differences that have been attributed to biological sex may actually be due to differences in power.
Feb 27, 2024
Columbia researchers analyzing images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have found that galaxies in the early universe are often flat and elongated, like breadsticks—and are rarely round, like balls of pizza dough.
Jan 17, 2024
Over the last decades, air pollution emissions have decreased substantially; however, the magnitude of the change varies by demographics, according to a new study by Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.
Jan 15, 2024
Certain facial features—like downturned lips and a heavy brow—are known to make someone appear untrustworthy to others, even though these do not indicate a person’s actual character.
Dec 15, 2023
