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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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Cartographers to the Rescue
Cartographers and researchers are answering the call for updated digital maps in remote locations
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Data Reveals X Factor in Pop Hits
What makes the perfect pop song, one that will rocket to the top of the Billboard charts?
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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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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