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Scientists Edge Closer to Affordable Superconductors
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Scientists Edge Closer to Affordable Superconductors

Novel materials could eventually power electric vehicles and more, say Columbia researchers

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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

How ISIS Really Recruits its Members
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How ISIS Really Recruits its Members

A study looks at what makes the group’s online propaganda successful

What Declassified Government Documents Reveal About America’s Dark Secrets
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Christopher Silas Neal

What Declassified Government Documents Reveal About America’s Dark Secrets

At the Columbia History Lab, Matthew Connelly ’90CC uses data science to uncover long-hidden files

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Brave New Worlds
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Brave New Worlds

Columbia astronomers are going beyond our solar system to understand exoplanets, find exomoons, and explore all sorts of surreal estate

Study Hall: Fall 2017
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Study Hall: Fall 2017

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Message in a Bottle
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Message in a Bottle

Bottled scents in historic buildings may help bring the past alive

Select Memories Can be Erased
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Select Memories Can be Erased

Neuroscientists from Columbia and McGill have found a way to selectively erase memories in sea slugs

Extinction Risks Wildly Underestimated
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Extinction Risks Wildly Underestimated

A study suggests that the International Union for Conservation of Nature vastly underestimates the number of species at risk of extinction

The Ice Detectives
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The Ice Detectives

Columbia researchers go to the ends of the earth to crack the coldest case of all

Study Hall: Summer 2017
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Study Hall: Summer 2017

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No-Spin Zone
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No-Spin Zone

How to talk when we talk about science

Painted by Mr. Robot
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Painted by Mr. Robot

Can machines be curious and expressive? Researchers at Columbia’s Creative Machines Lab think so

Deep Beneath the Dead Sea, a Harbinger of Future Drought
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Deep Beneath the Dead Sea, a Harbinger of Future Drought

The Middle East, like many arid regions, is expected to get even drier this century as a result of global warming

The Rove Beetles' Magical Mystery Lure
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The Rove Beetles' Magical Mystery Lure

What looks like an ant, acts like an ant, smells like an ant, and yet is not an ant?

How “Citizens United” Changed Our Politics
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How “Citizens United” Changed Our Politics

Since the US Supreme Court ruling, an unprecedented amount of money has poured into American elections

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