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Working Past Partisanship
In today’s hyper-partisan political environment, many people refuse to listen to any perspective that doesn’t reflect their own views. Is it even possible to imagine a world that runs on civil…
Advances in soft robotics usher in a new era of scientific analysis
Could robots, whose forms can be adapted to achieve almost any real-world task, soon be able to lend a hand in understanding the paleoecology tracing of extinct organisms?
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Ohio State CCIC welcomes state-of-the-art NMR spectrometer
In September 2023, the Campus Chemical Instrument Center (CCIC) and Gateway National Ultrahigh Field Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Facility welcomed the delivery of a state-of-the-art, 1.2…
Jana Houser, extreme-weather expert, answers 5 questions
Should you stay in your car if there’s a tornado? How does climate change affect weather? The associate professor of geography shares the whys and hows.
‘Dim-witted’ pigeons use the same principles as AI to solve tasks
A new study provides evidence that pigeons tackle some problems just as artificial intelligence would – allowing them to solve difficult tasks that would vex humans.
Previous research had…
MARC program at Ohio State seeks to empower nascent researchers
A new program at The Ohio State University seeks to grow the ranks of the next generation of biomedical scholars doing impactful research.
The Maximizing Access to Research Careers (MARC)…
Revealing structural secrets of a key cancer protein
Scientists have breathed new life into the study of a protein with an outsized link to human cancers because of its dangerous mutations, using advanced research techniques to detect its hidden…
Genomic analysis in snakes shows link between neutral, functional genetic diversity
In the world of threatened and endangered species conservation, the genomic revolution has raised some complicated questions: How can scientists justify assessing species genetic diversity without…
Physicists demonstrate powerful physics phenomenon
In a new breakthrough, researchers have used a novel technique to confirm a previously undetected physics phenomenon that could be used to improve data storage in the next generation of…