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Scientists Reveal How Patterns of Brain Activity Direct Specific Body Movements

Scientists Reveal How Patterns of Brain Activity Direct Specific Body Movements

July 20, 2017
neuroscience   zuckerman institute  

New research by Zuckerman Institute co-director Thomas M. Jessell, Ph.D., and his lab offers fresh insight into how the brain tells the body to move, from simple behaviors like walking, to trained movements that may take years to master.

It’s Getting Hot in Here: New York Tops the List of Sweatiest Cities in the U.S.

It’s Getting Hot in Here: New York Tops the List of Sweatiest Cities in the U.S.

July 20, 2017

Radley Horton, a climatologist at Columbia’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, predicts that by the end of the century, some cities could see three times more days with temperatures above 90 degrees.

Uganda Trial Shows Why it’s Worth Paying People to Preserve Trees

Uganda Trial Shows Why it’s Worth Paying People to Preserve Trees

July 20, 2017

A project that paid people in Ugandan villages not to cut down trees on their land delayed carbon dioxide emissions — a benefit to society that’s more than double the project’s costs, says Shahid Naeem, an ecologist at Columbia.

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