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Continue reading →: City Schools are Banning Smartphones. It’s a Policy that Falls Short.
Early reactions to the ban suggest that the policy targets symptoms, and not the deeper problems of connection and care.
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Continue reading →: Cold War nuke tests light up problem with present-day climate models
An updated calculation suggests climate models may be overestimating how long plants hold on to carbon.
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Continue reading →: Space travel is a lonely business. How can space psychologists make it better?
As NASA and ESA believe we will set sail for Mars in the near future, understanding human behaviour in adverse conditions becomes all the more important. UCL Student Journalism Scheme student Karthik Vinod finds out more.
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Continue reading →: Mind the gap! What transpired in the recent BAME awarding gap conference?
Student journalist Karthik Vinod reports on the progress of the project to help address the disparities in outcomes and experiences of undergraduate Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) and white students at UCL.
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Continue reading →: Promoting a sense of community – the active bystanders at UCL
What motivates student workshop leaders in Active By-stander Training to upskill students in tackling inappropriate behaviour? Student journalist Karthik Vinod investigates.
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Continue reading →: fMRI may reveal depression ‘subtypes’ and treatments that could work
The manifestations of depression appear as faulty brain patterns that, a study has found, psychiatrists often don’t account for.
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Continue reading →: Brains that don’t see in greyscale first over-rely on colours: Project Prakash study
Project Prakash treats and rehabilitates blind children in India. These children helped researchers shed light on how the brain learns to see.
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Continue reading →: An overlooked molecule could help solve the Venus water mystery
There’s a mismatch between the amount of water scientists estimated Venus to have lost in the last 4.5 billion years and how much spacecraft data say it has actually lost.
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Continue reading →: More solar storms brewing after last week’s aurorae as Sun ‘wakes up’
Since early May, scientists have been monitoring the sunspot AR 3664. By May 7, it was 16-times as wide as the earth and brimming with magnetic energy.
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Continue reading →: ‘Outstanding work’: IIT-M team makes mineral nanoparticles with water
Infusing soil with silica nanoparticles made using the technique could transform agriculture.
Karthik Vinod is a graduate student at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. He reports on science, education and public health.
Previously, Karthik interned with The Hindu, a national newspaper of record in India. Last year, he co-founded EdPublica, a science and educational news platform.
Karthik has master’s degrees in physics and astronomy, and science and technology studies.
You can reach out to Karthik on Signal @karthik.171 or via kv2462@columbia.edu
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