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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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Bullet Points: Reflections from the Front Lines of the Gun-Violence Epidemic

Jennifer Mascia ’07JRN provides an insider look at the emotional toll of her chosen career

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Landscaping to Save Lives

Columbia researchers have discovered a surprisingly simple way to reduce urban gun violence

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A Career in Caring

LeanOnWe, founded by Ron Gold '91BUS, increases access to home health care

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What Gorilla Poop Reveals About Our Messed-up Diet

Our taste for processed foods may be damaging our bodies in subtle ways

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Yelp if You’ve Got Food Poisoning

A new system that scans Yelp for complaints of food poisoning is helping New York City health inspectors identify and record food-borne illness.

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World’s Smallest Tape Recorder Built From Microbes

A modified bacterial strain of E. coli may prove useful in studying human digestion

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Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Neuron?

A Presidential Scholar draws science into friendlier territory

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The Politics Of Eating Well

Mark Bittman explains why he thinks our food system is flawed and how he recommends fixing it

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A Skin Patch that Dissolves Love Handles

Researchers are developing a painless, non-invasive alternative to liposuction

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Nurses First

How three women in New York are improving health care in Liberia with one simple but effective strategy

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First Responders

The emergency medical system that Americans take for granted — including 911 dispatchers and networks of first responders — doesn’t exist in many countries

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Paging Dr. Bard

A 275-year-old physician has a prescription for the ages

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