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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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Truth + Beauty
Looking at these photographs produced by Columbia researchers, you can appreciate why artists take their cues from nature
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All Work ... and Some Play
The Senior Design Expo showcased the creativity, teamwork, and problem-solving skills of engineering students
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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?
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Making Light of Death
At Columbia’s DeathLab, the search for a cleaner, smarter alternative to burial is a deeply serious matter
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A 17th-Century “Flap Book” Gets New Life Online
Columbia book conservators recently restored and digitized a seventeenth-century anatomy text
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Reduced Snowfall Could Cause Water Shortages for 2 Billion People
A Columbia study is the first to assess the risks posed by diminished snowfall across the Northern Hemisphere
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In Cooking Their Books, Corporate Accountants Like a Good Recipe
Repeated errors may be crafty means of inflating income
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Flash-Forward
If you think snapping high-definition pictures on your smartphone is the pinnacle of digital photography, think again
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Getting the Low-Down on Land Grabs
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