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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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Launch Code
Astronaut Tim Kopra ’13BUS circles the planet sixteen times a day. What on Earth propels him?
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The Laws of Subduction
The Marcus G. Langseth gathers seismic data under the ocean
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In an Ancient Workshop, Discovering Modern Ideas
Graduate students are gaining insights into the mindset of Renaissance craftsmen by reproducing their wares
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Sinking Prospects
A new study predicts that the height and duration of floods along the East Coast will increase dramatically by 2100
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Navigating Nairobi
Researchers have created the first map of Nairobi’s main transit system
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Data's Dividends
At Columbia’s Data Institute, teams of sociologists, economists, social workers, and data scientists are using computational methods to tackle life's big questions
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The Case of the Big Rock in the Wrong Spot
Geologists working in the Cape Verde islands have found evidence to back up a controversial theory
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What Exxon Knew
The company spent tens of millions of dollars between 1998 and 2005 on public-relations campaigns that questioned climate science
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Front-Row Seats to the Death of a Galaxy
Two supermassive black holes in the constellation Virgo are likely to smash together in about one hundred thousand years
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The Next Move for Planet Earth
What game theory can teach us about climate-change negotiations