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25 Columbia Ideas and Innovations that Changed the World
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25 Columbia Ideas and Innovations that Changed the World

From antibiotics to blood banks, radio waves to video calls, we spotlight the biggest scientific breakthroughs in medicine, technology, and more

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America’s Great Climate Migration Has Begun. Here’s What You Need to Know.
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America’s Great Climate Migration Has Begun. Here’s What You Need to Know.

Columbia researchers are developing innovative ways to protect communities most vulnerable to floods and other disasters

What Really Happened on Easter Island?
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What Really Happened on Easter Island?

A Columbia study helps debunk an old theory about the island’s mysterious past

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

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How Congress Misreads Public Opinion
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How Congress Misreads Public Opinion

New research shows that senior congressional aides have wildly inaccurate perceptions of their constituents’ views

The Great Rain Robbery
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The Great Rain Robbery

An ongoing drought in the American West has been made 38 percent more severe by global warming

Engineers Avert L Train “Apocalypse”
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Engineers Avert L Train “Apocalypse”

Dean Mary C. Boyce and colleagues develop an alternative plan that avoids major subway closures

Study Hall: Spring 2019
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Study Hall: Spring 2019

The latest research briefs from Columbia

An App that Offers Microfinance on Demand
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An App that Offers Microfinance on Demand

Shivani Siroya ’06PH is fighting global poverty with tech company Tala

Turning Dross Into Gold
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Turning Dross Into Gold

What if steel companies could recycle waste material and repurpose it for other industrial uses? 

Can AI Defeat the Dreaded Tsetse Fly?
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Can AI Defeat the Dreaded Tsetse Fly?

A new weapon against one of the world's most dangerous insects

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

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