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What U.S. legislators do when they can’t pass laws
The 118th Congress passed fewer than 30 new laws in 2023, the least in decades. But that doesn’t necessarily mean U.S. representatives weren’t finding other ways to get things done.
In a…
2023’s Top Stories in the Arts and Sciences
A lot happened in the College of Arts and Sciences in 2023. We wanted to take a look back at some of our top stories from the past 12 months, and we look forward to sharing another year of…
Stress, via inflammation, is linked to metabolic syndrome
Lifestyle and genetics, and a range of other factors within and outside our control, are known to contribute to development of metabolic syndrome, a cluster of conditions that add up to increased…
More siblings mean poorer mental health for teens
Teens from larger families have poorer mental health than those with fewer siblings, according to a large analysis of children in the United States and China. The details of the pattern vary…
How an Ohio State undergrad turned a research idea into a published study
When Farah Hasan was a sophomore at The Ohio State University, she noticed something in her social media posts that struck her as interesting.
She saw people posting about their anxiety…
Ohio State students travel to Dubai for climate conference
In early December, delegations from around the world gathered in Dubai for the 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28). Among the 70,000 attendees were 10 undergraduate students, two…
Role of AI in literature is topic of Ohio State lecture by Pulitzer Prize finalist
If artificial intelligence (AI) continues to evolve and becomes capable of producing first-rate literature, will the technology eventually replace human writers? Author, journalist and professor…
Women’s and girls’ sports: more popular than you may think
The number of Americans who watch or follow girls’ and women’s sports goes well beyond those who view TV coverage of women’s athletic events, a new study suggests.
In fact, just over half of…
First 1.2 GHz NMR Spectrometer in the United States at The Ohio State University funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation
Novel GHz-class NMR systems are enabling novel life science and materials research in functional structural biology, drug discovery, metabolomics and cleantech research.…