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How to protect self-esteem when a career goal dies
Many people fail at achieving their early career dreams. But a new study suggests that those failures don’t have to harm your self-esteem if you think about them in the right way.
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Ohio State’s Agostini wins Nobel Prize in Physics
Pierre Agostini, professor emeritus of physics at The Ohio State University, has been awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics with two of his colleagues.
ACCAD: Where art and tech meet to help people
This research center and Nationwide Children’s Hospital are working together to create virtual reality training that will help staff calm patients.
For the lonely, a blurred line between real and fictional people
In lonely people, the boundary between real friends and favorite fictional characters gets blurred in the part of the brain that is active when thinking about others, a new study found.
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Study sheds new light on strange lava worlds
Lava worlds, massive exoplanets home to sparkling skies and roiling volcanic seas called magma oceans, are distinctly unlike the planets in our solar system.
To date, nearly 50…
Political independents are more negative than partisans
In this era of extreme partisanship, the people who express the most negativity in their political choices are those we may least expect: independents. In a new paper, researchers conducted…
Urban Arts Space celebrates inaugural community artist-in-residence Arris’ J. Cohen
The Ohio State University’s Urban Arts Space (UAS) has named Arris’ J. Cohen as the center’s inaugural community artist-in-residence. UAS marked the occasion with a Sept. 13…
‘Canary’ documentary featuring Ohio State scientist delivers climate message
Lonnie Thompson has perhaps spent more time at the top of the world than anyone else on the planet.
Thompson, a distinguished university professor of earth sciences at The…
Ohio State leads new global climate center on AI for biodiversity change
The Ohio State University will lead a new multimillion dollar international center devoted to using artificial intelligence to help understand climate impacts on biodiversity.
The AI and…