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Scientists Edge Closer to Affordable Superconductors
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Scientists Edge Closer to Affordable Superconductors

Novel materials could eventually power electric vehicles and more, say Columbia researchers

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What Your Facial Features Say About You
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What Your Facial Features Say About You

Columbia psychologists unmask the perceptual biases that shape our impressions of one another

How ISIS Really Recruits its Members
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How ISIS Really Recruits its Members

A study looks at what makes the group’s online propaganda successful

What Declassified Government Documents Reveal About America’s Dark Secrets
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Christopher Silas Neal

What Declassified Government Documents Reveal About America’s Dark Secrets

At the Columbia History Lab, Matthew Connelly ’90CC uses data science to uncover long-hidden files

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Drone Onward
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Drone Onward

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

The Ghost Files
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The Ghost Files

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

Global Warnings
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Global Warnings

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

The Carbon Eaters
Peter Kelemen
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The Carbon Eaters

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

Mass Extinction Pinned to Volcanism
Paul Olsen
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Mass Extinction Pinned to Volcanism

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

Charting the World's Energy Future
Jason Bordoff
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Charting the World's Energy Future

Former White House energy adviser Jason Bordoff leads the new Center on Global Energy Policy

Heady Collisions
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Heady Collisions

What were conditions like .000000001 seconds after the Big Bang? Columbia scientists think the answer could hold a great secret of the universe

Protecting the Grid from the Bomb
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Protecting the Grid from the Bomb

Columbia engineers investigate how to avoid a cascading nuclear disaster

A Shot in the Light
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A Shot in the Light

NASA-backed scientists, led at Columbia by Amber Miller, are aiming a new telescope at a most distant target

Inherit the Wind (and Rain)
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Inherit the Wind (and Rain)

Speakers discuss planet fitness at the 2012 State of the Planet Conference.

Sandy’s Wake
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Sandy’s Wake

Columbia scientists have long been sounding the climate-change alarm. Will we listen now?

Black-Hole Hunter
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Black-Hole Hunter

An X-ray telescope whose optics were designed at Columbia is now orbiting Earth

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