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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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Bone-building Solution

Scientists have found a way to reverse osteoporosis in mice

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Mending Hearts

Columbia scientists figure out how to multiply tiny hearts

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Disease Catchers

New diseases seem to have cropped up with frightening regularity. Are we becoming more vulnerable to strange illnesses?

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Divisions of Labor

Columbia scientists shed light on a mystery involving cell reproduction

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Closing in on Breast Cancer

Oncologists demonstrate how a mutated gene associated with breast cancer contributes to runaway cell growth

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Eye, Robot

An engineering professor has developed small, snakelike robots to help surgeons handle tools in tight quarters

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Testy Docs

How can researchers test the effectiveness of improvements that surgeons make to procedures? 

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Glow Mouse

A new imaging technique from biomedical engineering professor Elizabeth Hillman

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Buzz Kill

Columbia researchers say they've identified another reason for honeybee decline

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Skeleton Key

Columbia scientists discover an entirely new function of the skeleton

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Once a Soldier

Children have done the killing in Africa's and Asia's dirtiest wars. What are their chances once the fighting stops?

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Rash Judgment?

Brian Fallon '85PH, '85PS says the medical establishment underestimates the devastating effects of Lyme disease

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