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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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Socializing with the Kremlin

Study shows that social media is being used by foreign entities to sow divisiveness in American society.

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Alaska at Risk For Massive Tsunami, Study Finds

A dislodged tectonic plate could trigger a tsunami with the capacity to devastate parts of the Alaska Peninsula

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Farsighted Forecasts

Lisa Goddard on how climate scientists can predict weather patterns months in advance, and how their work is improving people’s lives

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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

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Study Hall: Fall 2017

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Message in a Bottle

Bottled scents in historic buildings may help bring the past alive

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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

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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

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The Ice Detectives

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

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Study Hall: Summer 2017

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No-Spin Zone

How to talk when we talk about science

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Painted by Mr. Robot

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

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