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New Insights Could Mean Longer-Lasting Drugs with Less Side Effects

December 18, 2019

| The City College of New York, The Graduate Center

A growing understanding of G protein-coupled receptor signaling could allow scientists to create pharmaceuticals that are both longer lasting and have fewer side effects. Read more ›

Laser experiment in photonics laboratory.

Developments in Optical Waves Could Lead to New Lasers

December 17, 2019

| The City College of New York, The Graduate Center

Optical waves—light waves with frequencies near those of visible light—are hard to contain. But researchers have developed a new way to trap optical waves on demand. Read more ›

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Climate Change Could Seriously Impact Our Electrical Grid

December 16, 2019

| The City College of New York, The Graduate Center

Rising global temperatures could make our electrical grid less reliable — and scientists say we must take climate action now to prevent it. Read more ›

Busy crowd at Narita International Airport, Tokyo, Japa

From Hola to Konnichiwa: The Spanish Speakers of Japan

December 2, 2019

| The City College of New York, The Graduate Center

In her new book, Professor Araceli Tinajero documents the subculture that emerged after some 80,000 Spanish speakers of Japanese heritage returned to Japan. Read more ›

‘Middlemarch’ and George Eliot’s Scientific Aspirations

November 22, 2019

| The City College of New York

A new essay by City College of New York Prof. Renata Kobetts Miller takes a deeper look at George Eliot's 1872 masterpiece Middlemarch. Read more ›

Schematic of a half-light- half-matter quasiparticle based LED developed in Vinod Menon's group using atomically thin materials.

Photonics Breakthrough: New LED Material Could Lead to ‘Li-Fi’ Network

October 31, 2019

| The City College of New York, The Graduate Center

It's billed as a significant breakthrough in photonics: the creation of a light-emitting diode (LED) consisting of light and matter quasiparticles in atomically thin materials. Read more ›

Missouri River is seen curving its way through hilly terrain dotted with trees in Northern Montana against a mountainous backdrop

What A River’s History Can Teach Us

October 28, 2019

| The City College of New York

Knowing the history of a river's flow can help us understand droughts and other phenomena related to water, weather, and the environment. Read more ›

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How Research on Diamonds Could Improve MRIs

October 16, 2019

| The City College of New York, The Graduate Center

Researchers are looking at a type of defect in diamonds that could help improve the technology behind MRI scans and molecular spectroscopy. Read more ›

Children are shown congregating in front of tents in a refugee camp in Tehran, Iran, 1942, in a black-and-white image.

How Iran Helped Save 1,000 Jewish Children From the Holocaust

October 11, 2019

| The City College of New York, The Graduate Center

A new book looks at a little-known chapter of Holocaust history: Iran's sheltering of nearly 1,000 Jewish children who escaped the Nazis in Poland. The children were eventually resettled in Israel. Read more ›