On November 14 and 15, NYU Shanghai and NYU Abu Dhabi, co-hosted the first Conference of Language Matters: Teaching Content Across Languages, to address questions of linguistics, language acquisition and teaching content across languages within a global context.

Radiation is tricky. With its power to cause DNA damage in cells, it can be both a cause and a cure for cancer. One of the ways that radiation impacts DNA is by creating a series of reactive species inside our cells. In a new study led by Assistant Professor of Chemistry William Glover, a team of NYU Shanghai computational chemistry scientists probed the nature of one particular kind of reactive species: hydrated electrons. Their findings were recently published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, the preeminent journal in the field.

"Hydrated electrons are single unpaired electrons that drift around in liquid water. They’re very reactive, as they’re not attached to any atom," said Glover. "Our study was interested in exploring the properties of hydrated electrons with the future goal of eventually understanding how they damage DNA."

A team of anthropologists has found that reproduction permanently alters females' bones in ways not previously known. The finding, based on an analysis of primates, sheds new light on how giving birth can permanently change the body.