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Sleeping too Little (or too Much) Linked to Faster Aging, and Other Science News

The latest findings from Columbia researchers

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Your Chatbot Is a Terrible Therapist. Here’s Why.

Columbia clinicians are studying how ChatGPT and other AI tools may reinforce harmful beliefs and endanger vulnerable users

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Why Depression Rates Are Higher Among Liberals

Columbia researchers look at the politics of despair

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The Pollution Inside Your Home

Columbia researchers measured the air in and around New York City apartment buildings. What they found surprised them

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The Ebola Web

As the Ebola virus ravages West Africa, Columbians race to stop an epidemic

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Study of Ashkenazi Jews Opens Genomic Window

Columbia researchers have identified many previously unknown mutations common among the isolated group

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Researchers Find Synaptic Link to Autism

Neurobiologists have made a discovery that may help explain why people with autism are prone to epilepsy and often oversensitive to noise and social experiences

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Wise Blood

Columbia researchers have achieved a major breakthrough in understanding how blood flow is regulated in the brain

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Choices with Stories

George Estreich, author of The Shape of the Eye, spoke at the Heyman Center's event “Parenting, Narrative, and Our Genetic Futures"

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The Road to Kigutu

Deogratias Niyizonkiza barely escaped the genocidal war in Burundi in the 1990s. Years later, he returned to the small African nation with a big idea. Can he heal what remains?

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Visiting Columbia's family-friendly Brain Expo 

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Breaking Through

What will cannabis legalization mean for public health? Columbia researchers attempt to clear the air

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Gene Test Could Inform Prostate-Cancer Treatment

Physicians soon may be able to determine more reliably if a man’s prostate cancer requires quick attention

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Hair-Regeneration Method the First to Grow New Follicles

Columbia scientists have done something that until now only snake-oil salesmen claimed was possible

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The Wages of Health

Manmeet Kaur and Prabhjot Singh are building a community-health network in East Harlem

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Going Viral, One by One by One by One ...

Genetic-sequencing techniques may soon make it feasible for scientists to catalog all the viruses in our mammalian compatriots

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