Quantum Materials Revolutionized by Multi-Modal Nanoscience
Bringing a Technique From Astronomy to the Nano-Scale to Score a Quantum Breakthrough Researchers at Columbia University and University of California, San Diego, have introduced…
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Autonomous Navigation of Microrobots Based on Shape-Shifting Materials
Most synthetic materials, including those in battery electrodes, polymer membranes, and catalysts, degrade over time because they don’t have internal repair mechanisms. If you could…
Why Do We Freeze When Startled? Columbia Researchers Uncover Neurochemical Mechanism
Why do we freeze when startled? New study in flies points to serotonin. Columbia researchers uncover mechanism that produces the fly’s startle response, offers clues…
New Theory Explains the Mystery of How Black Holes and Neutron Stars Shine Bright
Columbia researchers suggest radiation that lights the densest objects in our universe is powered by the interplay of turbulence and reconnection of super-strong magnetic fields….
How Does Your Brain Make Everyday Decisions? [Video]
Hot coffee or cold brew? Pizza or pasta for dinner? These are the decisions that guide our everyday lives. What computations do our brains make…
Tunable Crystal Symmetry in Graphene Enables Nanoelectromechanical Sensors
Columbia researchers invent a new way to tune the properties of 2D materials by adjusting the twist angle between them; technology enables the development of…
Your Brain Has the Remarkable Ability to Hear One Voice in a Crowd – Here’s How It Works
Columbia-led study offers new insight into organization of brain’s listening center; provides roadmap for development of hearing-aid technologies inspired by the brain. Our brains have…
Columbia Scientists Reverse Core Symptom of Schizophrenia in Mice – “Memory Improved Dramatically”
Findings reveal potential new strategy for treating people diagnosed with schizophrenia. Columbia researchers have restored normal working memory to a mouse model of schizophrenia, eliminating…
Researchers Discover a Common Medicine May Prevent Harm to Lungs From Air Pollution
A new study is the first to report evidence that nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) like aspirin may lessen the adverse effects of air pollution exposure…
New Observations May Finally Explain the Mysterious Fading of Tabby’s Star
A Columbia study suggests chunks of an exomoon’s dusty outer layers of ice, gas and carbonaceous rock may be accumulating in a disk surrounding star….
Miniaturizing Medical Imaging, Sensing Technology Is a “Big Deal”
High quality medical images produced using a microchip proves researcher’s fabrication method can be used to miniaturize sensing, imaging and optical communication systems. Scientists in…
Not Just Lyme Disease: Study Finds Multiple Agents of Tick-Borne Diseases
In a study published in mBio, a journal of the American Society for Microbiology, Jorge Benach and Rafal Tokarz, and their co-authors at Stony Brook…
Your Bones Secrete a Stress Hormone Causing Fight-or-Flight Response
Both rodents and humans release a bone-derived hormone called osteocalcin in response to acute stress, researchers reported on September 12th, 2019, in the journal Cell…
Surprise: Fight or Flight Response Driven by Bone, Not Adrenaline
When faced with a predator or sudden danger, the heart rate goes up, breathing becomes more rapid, and fuel in the form of glucose is…
How Viruses Infect Humans Shown in Detailed Map
Biologists at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons have leveraged a computational method to map protein-protein interactions between all known human-infecting viruses and…
Air Pollution As Bad As a Pack a Day of Cigarettes in Accelerating Lung Disease
Air pollution — especially ozone air pollution which is increasing with climate change — accelerates the progression of emphysema of the lung, according to a…
“Particle Robots” Form Large Groups to Complete Tasks
Taking a cue from biological cells, researchers from MIT, Columbia University, and elsewhere have developed computationally simple robots that connect in large groups to move…
Astronomers Show How Colliding Galaxies May Seed Future Stars
A pair of dwarf galaxies closely circling the Milky Way, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, were in the throes of merging into one when…