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Scientists Edge Closer to Affordable Superconductors
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Scientists Edge Closer to Affordable Superconductors

Novel materials could eventually power electric vehicles and more, say Columbia researchers

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What Your Facial Features Say About You
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What Your Facial Features Say About You

Columbia psychologists unmask the perceptual biases that shape our impressions of one another

How ISIS Really Recruits its Members
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How ISIS Really Recruits its Members

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

What Declassified Government Documents Reveal About America’s Dark Secrets
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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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What do Retail Workers Want? Just a Little Respect
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What do Retail Workers Want? Just a Little Respect

Columbia sociologists reveal why it has been so difficult to organize workers at places like Walmart

What Fish Can Teach Us About Our Powers of Perception
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What Fish Can Teach Us About Our Powers of Perception

The African elephant-nose fish recognizes unimportant internal stimuli and summarily blocks them out

Martin Rees Reads the 2050 Tea Leaves
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Martin Rees Reads the 2050 Tea Leaves

The British Astronomer Royal prognosticates about the future of our planet

What the Ocean Floor Can Tell Us About Climate Change
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What the Ocean Floor Can Tell Us About Climate Change

Deep-sea sediment provides a trove of information about our planet’s past and future

The Hunt for the First Exomoon May be Over
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The Hunt for the First Exomoon May be Over

Astronomers report evidence of a moon around a Jupiter-like planet called Kepler-1625b

Study Hall: Fall 2018
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Study Hall: Fall 2018

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School of Rock

Climate scientists visit Barbados to study sea-level rise

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Brainteaser

An anthropologist investigates a never-before-seen protohuman species

Why You Didn't Get That Raise
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Why You Didn't Get That Raise

There's another important reason why wages in the US have stagnated

An Invisible Ink For Non-Spies
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An Invisible Ink For Non-Spies

Steganography has everyday applications, too

Another Weird Thing You Probably Didn’t Know About the Milky Way
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Another Weird Thing You Probably Didn’t Know About the Milky Way

Astronomers peered deep into the heart of the galaxy and found something unexpected

Urban Design’s New Wave
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Urban Design’s New Wave

GSAPP associate professor Kate Orff is exploring ways to harness the power of nature to combat the threats of climate change 

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