June 27, 2017
climate science
polar research
A warming climate is not just melting the Arctic’s sea ice; it is increasing the odds that ice-rafted pollution will foul a neighboring country’s waters, says a new study by Stephanie Pfirman and Robert Newton, researchers at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.
June 27, 2017
biology
neuroscience
In a new study, Columbia researchers come a step closer to making sense of how seizures start and spread by showing that the neurons of mice undergoing seizures fire off in a sequential pattern no matter how quickly the seizure propagates β a finding that confirms seizures are not the result of neurons randomly going haywire.
June 27, 2017
βItβs the interaction between genes and the environment that makes us who we are,β said Frances Champagne, an associate professor of psychology at Columbia and a leader in the growing field of behavioral epigenetics.