13
June
Thousands of years ago, the West Antarctic ice sheet shrank dramatically—then grew back in an unexpected way. The new findings could help to refine predictions about how today’s warming climate will impact polar ice and sea level rise.
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13
June
A new model developed by Kyle Davis, a Columbia postdoctoral researcher, estimates how many climate migrants there will be, where they are likely to go, and what effects they might have on the places to which they move.
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06
June
Researchers from Columbia University, Shanghai Normal University, and the University of Copenhagen have synthesized the first molecule capable of insulating at the nanometer scale more effectively than a vacuum barrier.
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06
June
Bakken, a Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University and member of the Data Science Institute, was chosen for the post by the AMIA Board of Directors.
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04
June
A new study that reconstructs the deep history of our planet’s relationship to the moon and other planetary bodies shows that 1.4 billion years ago, a day on Earth lasted about 18.7 hours.
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30
May
New research in mice has revealed that the brain’s underlying desire for sweet, and its distaste for bitter, can be erased by manipulating neurons in the amygdala, the emotion center of the brain.
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30
May
Increasing summer temperatures brought on by a combination of intensifying urbanization and a warming climate are causing cloud cover to plummet in southern coastal California, leading to increased risk of wildfires.
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