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The Deepfake Scam Era Is Upon Us. Here’s How to Get Ready.

Columbia cybersecurity expert Asaf Cidon explains the eerie rise of AI-powered email, phone, and video scams — and how anyone can fall for them

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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

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Women Earn Half as Much After Having Children, Finds New Study

Columbia researchers calculate the true price of motherhood

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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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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

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Study Hall: Fall 2018

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Climate scientists visit Barbados to study sea-level rise

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Brainteaser

An anthropologist investigates a never-before-seen protohuman species

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Science & Technology

Why You Didn't Get That Raise

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

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