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The Ohio State University is a large public research university in Columbus, Ohio, with research spanning engineering, medicine, earth sciences, and biology.
Ohio State researchers link street-level greenery to lower odds that a Cook County death was a gun homicide, using 899 cases. The link was strongest in less disadvantaged neighborhoods. In the most disadvantaged, being nearer a park went with higher risk.
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Ohio State researchers found a character's private remorse raised readers' forgiveness of fictional wrongdoers in three studies of 1,563 people. The team says the effect reached people who had wronged participants in real life.
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Ohio State researchers ran three studies with 1,563 people and found that inner-thought narration promoted forgiveness of a fictional repairman. Participants asked to recall a real wrong tended to carry it over; the coverage does not report an effect size.
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Stanford and Ohio State researchers found the top 5% of just over 12,000 US venture capitalists generated 90% of $1.2 trillion in net profit. Education, experience and gender correlate with who ends up there, and the authors present the dataset as a benchmark for choosing and comparing investors.
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Brookhaven's STAR experiment found a dip in collision-to-collision particle-flow fluctuations across about 1 billion gold collisions at 3 to 7.7 GeV. The researchers call it a hint of nuclear matter's long-sought critical point, short of proof.
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Ohio State researchers validated an 11-item scale linking judgments of one's body against a younger self to body shame and disordered eating. It gives clinicians a tool for patients in midlife and other body transitions, though the university's account does not report effect sizes.
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Ohio State physicists found that the gene-silencing histone H1 slides along DNA but needs a chaperone to load onto nucleosomes. The single-molecule result adds a delivery step to the working model of how cells keep unused genes compacted.
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Lonnie Thompson's team estimates Tibet's Guliya ice cap holds a climate record reaching back well over 128,000 years, into the last ice age. Thompson says that makes it the only mountaintop ice core outside the polar regions to reach that far.
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Ohio State researchers filmed wild sooty mangabeys climbing thin trunks in Ivory Coast. The measurement removes ankle anatomy as a clean way to sort what the human-chimp ancestor did in trees.
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A Penn State-led team says it imaged the shallow subsurface using thunderquakes recorded on a 4 km campus telecom cable, with no seismic source and no sensor array deployed.
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Nature asked ten PhD students, postdocs and faculty what surprised them about teaching for the first time. Their answers are recollections about preparation. The piece reports no student outcomes.
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Ohio State researchers followed 3,334 adolescents from birth to age 15 and found an attendance gap for students with child protective services contact that school connectedness helps explain but leaves in place.
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Six of the selections target off-planet food production and six target astronaut physiology, with more than $7 million committed across fiscal years 2026 to 2030 and nine awards going to investigators new to the program.
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Five papers in The Astrophysical Journal report the helium made in the universe's first five minutes with 0.5% uncertainty, three times tighter than the previous standard, from 15 chemically pristine dwarf galaxies.
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Humanoid locomotion is rehearsed and it films well. The manipulation figure in the published record is 85% success on five tasks with 25 objects. A household or warehouse pilot has to clear that bar on its own objects.
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A review in Trends in Cognitive Sciences argues that young children spread their attention broadly because their working memory is immature, and its central evidence is a dual-task experiment run on adults.
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Luciana Pereyra had 31 days of notice and 60 days of grace, and most of the useful ones fell while the universities she was applying to were shut. Her employer set the termination date; federal law set the rest.
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A new Academy of Management Review paper argues that routing thinking through Gen-AI under time pressure costs managers the practical wisdom only firsthand consequences build. The argument is conceptual, and its two conditions are testable.
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Ohio State researchers report that teachers who trust their principal feel safer and less stressed, but where student victimization runs high that protective link thins out, which puts discipline policy upstream of leadership warmth.
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Ohio State researchers filmed sooty mangabeys in Ivory Coast and measured midfoot flexion that matches a climbing chimpanzee's ankle, which means a fossil foot that looks monkey-like cannot by itself rule out vertical climbing.
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