Columbia cybersecurity expert Asaf Cidon explains the eerie rise of AI-powered email, phone, and video scams — and how anyone can fall for them
Columbia alien hunter David Kipping on the odds of finding company in the cosmos
Columbia researchers calculate the true price of motherhood
Forty years after the tragedy, Columbia sociologist Diane Vaughan reflects on her landmark work on organizational decision-making
A lab on wheels gives schoolchildren glimpses of the natural world
Fifty years ago, when astronauts first landed on the moon, they carried not only humanity’s highest hopes but an important experiment from Columbia
With the Internet now a global battlefield, how serious a threat do cyberweapons pose to America’s economy and infrastructure?
The planet is drowning in the most useful material ever invented. So what are we going to do about it?
Quotes from the Veon CEO on her choice of career and the need for more diversity in the science, technology, engineering, and math fields
Among its recommendations is planning for increased risk of heat-related injuries, drinking-water shortages, sunny-day flooding, and infectious disease
Liveaction 3D footage reveals the nervous system of a fruit-fly larva as it crawls
Citizen scientists can help combat Lyme disease with a new app
New research shows that senior congressional aides have wildly inaccurate perceptions of their constituents’ views
An ongoing drought in the American West has been made 38 percent more severe by global warming
Dean Mary C. Boyce and colleagues develop an alternative plan that avoids major subway closures
