New Research Helps to Instill Persistence in Children
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Encouraging children “to help,” rather than asking them to “be helpers,” can instill persistence as they work to fulfill daily tasks that are difficult to complete, finds a new psychology study.
Physicists Develop New Techniques to Enhance Data Analysis for Large Hadron Collider
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Physicists have created new techniques that deploy machine learning as a means to significantly improve data analysis for the Large Hadron Collider.
We May Hear Others’ Footsteps, But How Do We Ignore Our Own?
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A team of scientists has uncovered the neural processes mice use to ignore their own footsteps, a discovery that offers new insights into how we learn to speak and play music.
New Research Shows How We Turn On & Off Languages—And that Doing So is Easier than Previously Thought
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A team of researchers has uncovered the distinct computations that occur when we switch between different languages, a finding that provides new insights into the nature of bilingualism.
Cecil Scheib: ‘Put Down the Laptop and Do Something’
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NYU's assistance vice president for sustainability describes how institutions and individuals can help reduce their collective carbon footprints.
Researchers Outline Game-Theory Approach to Better Understand Genetics
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Principles of game theory offer new ways of understanding genetic behavior, a pair of researchers has concluded in a new analysis.
One Question: How Do We Prepare Rapidly Growing Cities for Further Expansion?
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In this series, we turn to NYU faculty—specialists in their fields—to address the general questions that we all encounter as we move through the world.
NYU Steinhardt Researchers Identify Tool to Help Transgender Women Have a More Authentic Voice
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New York University researchers have identified visual-acoustic biofeedback as a new tool to assist in voice modification therapy for transgender women.
Scientists Find a Neurological Synergy in Explaining the Processing of a Common Optical Illusion
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A team of scientists has uncovered a neurological synergy that occurs in visual adaptation, a phenomenon in which perception is altered by prolonged exposure to a stimulus.
NYU Scientists Part of New Software Institute Aimed at Making Discoveries in High-Energy Physics
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NYU will be part of a National Science Foundation-backed coalition that will create next-generation cyberinfrastructure to support high-energy physics research.