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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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New Method for Storing CO2 is Rock-solid
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New Method for Storing CO2 is Rock-solid

Converting carbon dioxide into stone appears to be a safe way of sequestering carbon emissions

Study Hall: Fall 2016
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Study Hall: Fall 2016

Research briefs

Is Anybody out There? Let’s do the Math
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Is Anybody out There? Let’s do the Math

What are the chances of life existing on another planet? 

Beneath Bangladesh, a Tectonic Time Bomb
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Beneath Bangladesh, a Tectonic Time Bomb

The earthquake will come. No one can say when. But scientists warn that it could be huge

Education: the Great Unifier?
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Education: the Great Unifier?

Democrats’ and Republicans’ opinions on education-policy issues have been converging

A Shark in the Dark
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A Shark in the Dark

Biofluorescence in marine animals is much more common than previously recognized

Robots on the Road
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Robots on the Road

A Q&A with roboticist Hod Lipson about the future of driverless cars

Truth + Beauty
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Truth + Beauty

Looking at these photographs produced by Columbia researchers, you can appreciate why artists take their cues from nature

Study Hall: Summer 2016
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Study Hall: Summer 2016

 Research briefs

All Work ... and Some Play
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All Work ... and Some Play

The Senior Design Expo showcased the creativity, teamwork, and problem-solving skills of engineering students

Now You See Earth, Now You Don't
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Now You See Earth, Now You Don't

Could a laser-powered cloaking device make planet Earth invisible to extraterrestrial invaders?

Political Futures
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Political Futures

Who’s going to win the presidential election?

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