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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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Chemists Discover Key to Improving Solar Power
Solar cells can be manufactured at a lower cost using crystals called perovskites instead of silicon
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Revealing the True Hunting Habits of Yankee Whalers
Scientists are getting clearer picture of the ecological impact of the 19th-century whaling industry
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Climate Change Fuels Significant Increase in US Forest Fires
Wildfires have been consuming forests in the western US at a devastating pace
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The Secret Life of Volcanoes
Can a Columbia-led expedition to South America uncover the forces that drive one of its largest volcanoes?
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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
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Is Anybody out There? Let’s do the Math
What are the chances of life existing on another planet?
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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
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Education: the Great Unifier?
Democrats’ and Republicans’ opinions on education-policy issues have been converging
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A Shark in the Dark
Biofluorescence in marine animals is much more common than previously recognized
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Robots on the Road
A Q&A with roboticist Hod Lipson about the future of driverless cars