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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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Brainteaser
An anthropologist investigates a never-before-seen protohuman species
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Why You Didn't Get That Raise
There's another important reason why wages in the US have stagnated
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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
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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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The Next Trend in Eco Fashion
Algae-based, biodegradable clothing could be the next big thing
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A Prescription for Pollution
Discarded pharmaceuticals are beginning to contaminate our rivers, ponds, and lakes
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Was the Big Bang Really a Big Bounce?
Associate research scientist Anna Ijjas proposes a radically alternative theory of how our universe came to be
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From Code to Cure
Armed with enormous amounts of clinical data, Columbia scientists are rewriting the rules of medical research
