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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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Painted by Mr. Robot
Can machines be curious and expressive? Researchers at Columbia’s Creative Machines Lab think so
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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
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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?
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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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The Future of Data Storage is in Our DNA
Scientists have begun experimenting with putting data onto nature’s original hard drive
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All the Food that's Fit to Print
Someday there might be a 3D printer ready to print dinner
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Mummified Leaves Hold Clues to Ancient Climate Mysteries
A twenty-three-million-year-old leaf, retrieved from a lakebed in New Zealand, is shedding light on our planet’s climate history
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Is the Wealth Gap Really New?
Research suggests that the gap between rich and poor has not grown as much as is commonly believed
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Lights! Camera! Algorithms?
Bringing animated characters to life requires the guidance of some good mathematicians
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Elephant Poaching is Still a Huge Problem, New Evidence Shows
African elephants are being wiped out by poachers