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Science & Technology

Could Life Be Made Simpler?

Researchers have created a bacterium that thrives with nineteen amino acids instead of twenty

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Illustration by Josie Norton depicting AI in the classroom

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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Anton Petrus

How Seriously Should We Take UFO Sightings?

Columbia alien hunter David Kipping on the odds of finding company in the cosmos

The Challenger explosion

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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Science & Technology

How Polarization Punishes Open Minds

In today’s political climate, even the act of engaging with opposing viewpoints can come at a social cost

Short-Baseline Near Detector
Science & Technology

A Big Step Forward for Particle Physics

A new particle detector was recently activated at Fermilab

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Science & Technology

Robots Are Getting Touchy-Feely

Columbia researchers improve robot dexterity

A fishing sailboat in Madagascar
Science & Technology

What Madagascar Fishing Communities Can Teach Us about Climate Survival

Indigenous groups of the island have survived centuries of environmental tumult. What is their secret? 

Herman Hollerith’s tabulating system, 1908
Science & Technology

How Herman Hollerith Helped Launch the Information Age

The Columbia-trained statistician transformed everything from census counts to election tallies, and prefigured modern computing

Coral reef
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The Life-and-Death Struggle of Coral Reefs

As warming seas threaten these essential marine ecosystems, Braddock Linsley drills down on their history

People sitting on a car during a flood
Science & Technology

America’s Great Climate Migration Has Begun. Here’s What You Need to Know.

Columbia researchers are developing innovative ways to protect communities most vulnerable to floods and other disasters

A rocket designed by Columbia students
Science & Technology

Blastoff, Mojave Style

Members of the Columbia Space Initiative win second place in the FAR-OUT 2024 rocketry competition

Sculptures on Easter Island
Science & Technology

What Really Happened on Easter Island?

A Columbia study helps debunk an old theory about the island’s mysterious past

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Science & Technology

Are We Really All Suckers for Fake News?

A new study sheds light on the need for greater media literacy

Conservation biologist Corinne Kendall holding a vulture
Science & Technology

Why Vultures Need Our Protection

Corinne Kendall ’08GSAS, one of America’s top vulture experts, is working to preserve an unfairly maligned bird of prey

Disney Imagineer Lanny Smoot
Science & Technology

Disney ‘Imagineer’ Lanny Smoot’s Lightsaber Moment

The engineer joins the National Inventors Hall of Fame

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