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- The Stacks Project: A Wikipedia of algebraic geometry (2022) https://news.columbia.edu/news/stacks-project-johan-dejong 21 comments
- The Stacks Project, a new model for organizing and visualizing mathematics https://news.columbia.edu/news/stacks-project-johan-dejong 24 comments
- Ideas in statistics that have powered AI https://news.columbia.edu/news/top-10-ideas-statistics-ai 78 comments
- Research Finds Outright Grants of Cash are an Effective Form of Aid to the Poor http://news.columbia.edu/global/3240 124 comments
- The Columbia Math Professor Every NYC Startup & VC Should Know http://news.columbia.edu/newyorkstories/1955 13 comments
- Researchers found that when real-world defendants have facial features that appear untrustworthy, they are more likely to be sentenced to death than life in prison. They also found that mock jurors were more likely to recommend a ruling against defendants with an untrustworthy facial appearance. https://news.columbia.edu/news/jurors-recommend-death-penalty-based-looks-new-training-can-correct-bias 294 comments science
- Study mapped ketamine’s effects on the brains of mice, and found that repeated use over extended periods of time leads to widespread structural changes in the brain’s dopamine system https://news.columbia.edu/news/new-study-maps-ketamines-effects-brain 156 comments science
- Where do High-Energy Particles That Endanger Satellites, Astronauts and Airplanes Come From? https://news.columbia.edu/news/where-do-high-energy-particles-endanger-satellites-astronauts-and-airplanes-come 14 comments space
- How Electric Vehicles Could Fix the Electrical Grid. Idle EVs could be put to work via vehicle-to-grid technology. "Potentially, EVs could become the largest, distributed energy storage facility deployed. Together, they could supply more electric power than all conventional power plants combined.” https://news.columbia.edu/news/how-electric-vehicles-could-fix-electrical-grid 46 comments energy
- This Wikipedia of Algebraic Geometry Will Forever Be Incomplete. That’s the Point. https://news.columbia.edu/news/stacks-project-johan-dejong 28 comments math
- New Study Estimates the Odds of Life and Intelligence Emerging Beyond Our Planet https://news.columbia.edu/life-intelligence-universe-earth-bayesian-statistics 6 comments science
- A new study by a top Columbia University professor that was recently published in the National Academy of Sciences used Bayesian analysis to infer that the universe is likely teeming with life but intelligent life is extremely rare https://news.columbia.edu/life-intelligence-universe-earth-bayesian-statistics 530 comments space
- A Columbia University study has found that adversity early in life is associated with increased gastrointestinal symptoms in children that may signal future mental health problems, which impact the brain and behavior as they grow to maturity. https://news.columbia.edu/news/gastrointestinal-complaints-children-could-signal-future-mental-health-problems 19 comments science
- Staten Island's infestation of the self-cloning Asian Longhorned Tick is more advanced than previously thought https://news.columbia.edu/news/new-yorkers-brace-self-cloning-asian-longhorned-tick 200 comments science
- Researchers had women make food choices while undergoing an fMRI scan. In anorexia patients, the fMRI showed an association between activity in the dorsal striatum and decisions about food, similar to those who suffer from substance abuse. http://news.columbia.edu/content/eating-disorder-study-shows-how-the-brain-dictates-food-choices 4 comments science
- In the first evaluation of evaporation as a renewable energy source, researchers at Columbia University find that U.S. lakes and reservoirs could generate 325 gigawatts of power, nearly 70 percent of what the United States currently produces. http://news.columbia.edu/content/1736 4 comments science
- In the first evaluation of evaporation as a renewable energy source, researchers at Columbia University find that U.S. lakes and reservoirs could generate 325 gigawatts of power, nearly 70 percent of what the United States currently produces. http://news.columbia.edu/content/1736 4 comments science
- Is There Intelligent Life in the Universe? 5 Questions with Astrobiologist Caleb Scharf http://news.columbia.edu/content/there-intelligent-life-universe-5-questions-astrobiologist-caleb-scharf 4 comments space
- Research Finds Outright Grants of Cash Are Surprisingly Effective Form of Aid to the Poor http://news.columbia.edu/global/3240 29 comments politics
- Research Finds Outright Grants of Cash Are Surprisingly Effective Form of Aid to the Poor http://news.columbia.edu/global/3240 82 comments science
- Research Finds Outright Grants of Cash Are Surprisingly Effective Form of Aid to the Poor http://news.columbia.edu/global/3240 84 comments nottheonion
- Can you find it on the Interwebs? Cool, you don't need to remember it. Research at Columbia Univ shows how the rise of search engines has changed the way we remember (or forget) things. http://news.columbia.edu/googlememory 4 comments technology
- Multiverse theory in "elegance" shocker http://news.columbia.edu/briangreene 16 comments science
- Researchers Cure Osteoporosis in Mice http://news.columbia.edu/research/1911 3 comments science