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Open-Source Platform Simulates Wildlife For Soft Robotics Designers

SoftZoo is a soft robot co-design platform that can test optimal shapes and sizes for robotic performance in different environments.

Does Grief Depend on How the Loved One Died?

Is the grief experience different for individuals who have lost a loved one by medical assistance in dying (MAiD) compared to natural death with palliative care (NDPC)?

Regenerating the Heart After an Attack

Heart attacks are damaging, and the severity depends on how long blood flow has been interrupted; when temporarily deprived of oxygen, heart cells die.

How Does the Brain Learn?

Everyone knows the human brain is extremely complex – but how does it learn, exactly? Well, the answer may be a lot simpler than commonly believed.

Opioid Use Disorder: Flexible Treatment At Home Proves Effective

Did you know that more than 26,500 Canadians died from opioid intoxication between January 2016 and September 2021?

Cracking the Mystery of Jupiter’s High-Energy ‘Northern Lights’

In a new study, PhD students Gabriel Bridges and Shifra Mandel help show that both poles of Jupiter are aglow with high-energy light.

Scientists Discover How Mutations In A Language Gene Produce Speech Deficits

Faulty versions of the Foxp2 gene disrupt neurons’ ability to form synapses in brain regions involved in speech, a new study shows.

Common Virus May Cause Serious Disease in Transplant Patients

A common virus that causes no harm in most people may be a danger to organ transplant recipients and other immunocompromised people, say researchers at Columbia University Irving Medical Center and Columbia Mailman School of Public Health.

Training Machines To Learn More Like Humans Do

Researchers identify a property that helps computer vision models learn to represent the visual world in a more stable, predictable way.

Chemists’ Technique Reveals Whether Antibodies Neutralize SARS-Cov-2

The method could enable a rapid test to determine whether individuals are producing antibodies that help protect against Covid-19.

How Attachment Styles Influence Romantic Relationships

Columbia psychiatrist’s groundbreaking book returns to the best-seller list 11 years after publication as attachment theory gains popularity on social media

Like Ancient Mariners, Ancestors Of Prochlorococcus Microbes Rode Out To Sea On Exoskeleton Particles

A new study shows the carbon-capturing phytoplankton colonized the ocean by rafting on particles of chitin.

Gene-Editing Technique Could Speed Up Study Of Cancer Mutations

With the new method, scientists can explore many cancer mutations whose roles are unknown, helping them develop new drugs that target those mutations.

Smell Loss with COVID-19 Begins in the Nuclear Hearts of the Nose’s Sensory Cells

Research collaboration teases out cellular and molecular mechanisms that underlie one of pandemic’s signature symptoms, with implications for other health conditions

MIT researcher on computer vision study: 'You want to know that the true image is contained within that range so you are not missing anything critical'

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a way to accurately measure and display uncertainty in computer vision algorithms that can be understood by the average person, according to a news release.

Study Reveals New Ways For Exotic Quasiparticles To “Relax”

A perovskite-based device that combines aspects of electronics and photonics may open doors to new kinds of computer chips or quantum qubits.

Antagonistic Interactions Of Plant Defense Compounds

Tobacco hornworms neutralize different defense mechanisms of tobacco plants after ingestion

Enzyme Of Bacterial Origin Promoted The Evolution Of Longhorned Beetles

Gene duplication increased the diversity and specificity of enzymes that enable beetle larvae to degrade important wood components.

Beetle Iridescence a Deceptive Form of Warning Colouration, Study Finds

A new study published today in Animal Behaviour shows for the first time that brilliant iridescence and gloss found in some animals can have a protective function by working as a form of deceptive warning colouration, and that it is the key feature of iridescence, its changing colours, that is important for this effect.