Science & Technology

Human-caused climate change could have an unprecedented effect on marine life

The global lust for ivory threatens to silence the African elephant forever. Can a hidden remnant of the Cold War help stem the slaughter?

A surprising number of Americans cycle in and out of poverty. Columbia researchers have embarked on an ambitious study to find out why

A video game that parents will want their kids to play

Columbia climate scientists have discovered why outbreaks of bacterial meningitis are seasonal

Columbia researchers have developed a new way to monitor how bacterial cells communicate

Engineering professor Patricia Culligan has a solution to New York's rain-drainage problem

Andrea Gilli, an Italian visiting scholar, lectures at Columbia's Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies

Can big-data analysis show what kinds of information the government is keeping classified?

Jason Bordoff, director of Columbia’s Center on Global Energy Policy, speaks about climate change

Geochemist Peter Kelemen thinks a solution to global warming could lie beneath our feet

A new study provides the best evidence yet that fiery eruptions caused a mass extinction two hundred million years ago