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Could Life Be Made Simpler?
Researchers have created a bacterium that thrives with nineteen amino acids instead of twenty
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Chatbots Have Entered the Classroom. What Happens Next?
Columbia faculty are finding innovative ways to incorporate AI into coursework without compromising academic rigor
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How Seriously Should We Take UFO Sightings?
Columbia alien hunter David Kipping on the odds of finding company in the cosmos
How the Challenger Disaster Became a Case Study of the ‘Normalization of Deviance’
Forty years after the tragedy, Columbia sociologist Diane Vaughan reflects on her landmark work on organizational decision-making
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Engineers Avert L Train “Apocalypse”
Dean Mary C. Boyce and colleagues develop an alternative plan that avoids major subway closures
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An App that Offers Microfinance on Demand
Shivani Siroya ’06PH is fighting global poverty with tech company Tala
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Turning Dross Into Gold
What if steel companies could recycle waste material and repurpose it for other industrial uses?
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Can AI Defeat the Dreaded Tsetse Fly?
A new weapon against one of the world's most dangerous insects
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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
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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
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Martin Rees Reads the 2050 Tea Leaves
The British Astronomer Royal prognosticates about the future of our planet
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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
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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
