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What Declassified Government Documents Reveal About America’s Dark Secrets

At the Columbia History Lab, Matthew Connelly ’90CC uses data science to uncover long-hidden files

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Plastic, Plastic Everywhere

The planet is drowning in the most useful material ever invented. So what are we going to do about it?

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Climate Change Fuels Significant Increase in US Forest Fires

Wildfires have been consuming forests in the western US at a devastating pace

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How ISIS Really Recruits its Members

A study looks at what makes the group’s online propaganda successful

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The Need to Protect the Data in Our Brains

In Theater of Thought, Rafael Yuste explores the intersections of privacy and neurotechnology with Werner Herzog

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Gen Z Discovers LSD, and Other Science News

Research briefs from Columbia

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The Columbia Telescope That Changed How We See the World

Why the Rutherfurd Telescope is legendary among astronomy aficionados

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Can We Act Sooner to Save Endangered Species?

At-risk animal populations should receive protections earlier, urge Columbia researchers

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The Case of the Well-Dressed Panhandler

Clothing choices matter when soliciting spare change, find Columbia Business School researchers

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Tree Rings Solve Mystery of 19th-Century Shipwreck

Columbia scientists formally identify the Dolphin, a lost Rhode Island whaler from the 1850s

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Columbia Engineering Leads Major Initiative on Smart Streetscapes

The National Science Foundation has awarded a $26 million grant to develop a new research center

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Coyotes and Other Wild Animals Move into New York City

Urban critters such as possums, skunks, and groundhogs are growing in numbers, say Columbia researchers

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Making Room for Tigers

Ecologists are studying new ways to protect the big cats’ need to roam

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Jurassic Parka: How Dinosaurs Survived the Cold

New fossil discovery suggests dinos could tolerate chillier climates

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War Atrocities in Yemen Linked to US Weapons

Columbia Law School researchers have unveiled a disturbing connection between American arms and civilian deaths

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Biomedical Engineers Can Now Watch Our Organs Talk to Each Other

In a plastic device the size of a credit card, tissues communicate with each other through a shared blood supply

 

 

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