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Continue reading →: “It Still Blows My Mind”: Ten Years After Reform, Legionella Still Haunts New York CityA legionella outbreak in Harlem in July 2025 exposed gaps in maintaining infrastructure and public health accountability.
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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 modelsAn 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 UCLWhat 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 workThe 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 studyProject 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 mysteryThere’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.
Karthik Vinod is a graduate student at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. He reports on science, education and public health.
Previously, I interned with The Hindu, a national newspaper of record in India. Last year, I co-founded EdPublica, a science and educational news platform.
I have master’s degrees in physics and astronomy, and science and technology studies.
You can reach out to me on Signal @karthik.171 or via kv2462@columbia.edu
BTW, I was sorted into Ravenclaw House (Source: Harry Potter)
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