What The Study Did: The findings of this study of 699 self-identified Black participants help to explain how a historical process experienced by Black individuals in early life may contribute to poor cognitive aging outcomes. Those who transitioned to an integrated school between first and sixth grades had statistically significantly better executive function and semantic memory than those who only attended segregated schools.

An international team of scientists, including a member of the Complexity Science Hub Vienna, applied a method from physics to the century-old rice irrigation practices in Bali. Their aim: To find the relevant parameters that led to this well-balanced sustainable water management system.

A team led by Martina Balestra, a former post-doc and an adjunct professor at the Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP) at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, and including Oded Nov, professor of technology management and innovation at NYU Tandon, as well as Ji Chen, Eduardo Iturrate, and Yindalon Aphinyanaphongs of NYU Grossman and NYU Langone, developed a machine learning model to identify medication orders requiring pharmacy intervention using only provider behavior and other contextual features that may reflect these new sources of inefficiencies, rather than patients’ medical records.

People with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are at substantially increased risk of self-injury and suicide, according to a new study at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons. Researchers found that the odds of self-harm in people with autism spectrum disorder were over three times that of people without ASD. The odds existed in both children and adults, though a slightly higher odds was identified in adults.