Research News
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Non-Parents Expand ‘Facial Dexterity’ in Caring for Infants Among PrimatesNon-parents expand the range of their facial expressions in caring for infants among primates, revealing the ability, among non-relatives, to both decipher facial expressions and to be attuned to others’ emotional states.
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States Laws Limit Local Control Over Guns, Favor Gun RightsDespite Mass Shootings and Public Demonstrations, Gun Laws Slow to Change
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Computer-Based Modeling Can Predict Mutation “Hotspots” and Antibody Escapers in the SARS-CoV-2 Spike ProteinStudy Identifies Structural Basis of Spike Protein Mutations with Stronger Binding and Antibody Resistance, Which May Explain Transmissibility of New COVID-19 Variants
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Scientists Explore Tesla Roads Not Taken—and Find New Potential Present-Day UtilityA valve invented by engineer Nikola Tesla a century ago is not only more functional than previously realized, but also has other potential applications today, a team of researchers has found.
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National Endowment for the Humanities Awards NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts $150K in Support of Research on the Abydos BreweryThe fieldwork over the next two years will focus on the further exploration of the royal brewery and the analysis of the evidence for the ritual use of beer in the nearby royal funerary temples
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Losing an Only Child is More Devastating Than Losing a Spouse, According to Study of Chinese ParentsWith Millions of One-Child Families in China, Study Highlights Distress Experienced After Loss
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How Scientists Are “Resurrecting” Extinct Plants to Study Their EvolutionNYU researchers sequence the genome of extinct date palms germinated from 2,000-year-old seeds
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Single-Cell CRISPR Technology Deciphers Role of Chromatin Accessibility in CancerMapping the ‘chromatinome’: New integrative functional genomics platform for profiling genome regulation with a massively-parallel screen of chromatin modifiers
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Partnerships Between Researchers, Policymakers and Practitioners Improve Early Childhood EducationNYU Steinhardt’s Pamela Morris and her colleague at the University of Virginia edited research journal, Future of Children, which finds and demonstrates that research practice partnerships improve early childhood education.
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Study: New York City Nurses Experienced Anxiety, Depression During First Wave of COVID-19Research Highlights How Hospitals Can Support Nurses During Public Health Crises to Protect Their Mental Health