Science & Technology

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

Who’s going to win the presidential election?

At Columbia’s DeathLab, the search for a cleaner, smarter alternative to burial is a deeply serious matter

Research briefs

Columbia book conservators recently restored and digitized a seventeenth-century anatomy text

A Columbia study is the first to assess the risks posed by diminished snowfall across the Northern Hemisphere

Repeated errors may be crafty means of inflating income

If you think snapping high-definition pictures on your smartphone is the pinnacle of digital photography, think again

Over the past decade, countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean have sold or leased millions of acres of state-controlled farmland to foreign interests 

Astronaut Tim Kopra ’13BUS circles the planet sixteen times a day. What on Earth propels him?

The Marcus G. Langseth gathers seismic data under the ocean

Graduate students are gaining insights into the mindset of Renaissance craftsmen by reproducing their wares