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Could a Giant Helium Balloon in Antarctica Help Find Dark Matter?
A particle detector deployed by Columbia scientists is looking for traces of antideuterons in the atmosphere
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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
What Really Happened on Easter Island?
A Columbia study helps debunk an old theory about the island’s mysterious past
The Deepfake Scam Era Is Upon Us. Here’s How to Get Ready.
Columbia cybersecurity expert Asaf Cidon explains the eerie rise of AI-powered email, phone, and video scams — and how anyone can fall for them
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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?
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How Herman Hollerith Helped Launch the Information Age
The Columbia-trained statistician transformed everything from census counts to election tallies, and prefigured modern computing
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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
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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
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Blastoff, Mojave Style
Members of the Columbia Space Initiative win second place in the FAR-OUT 2024 rocketry competition
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What Really Happened on Easter Island?
A Columbia study helps debunk an old theory about the island’s mysterious past
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Are We Really All Suckers for Fake News?
A new study sheds light on the need for greater media literacy
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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
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Disney ‘Imagineer’ Lanny Smoot’s Lightsaber Moment
The engineer joins the National Inventors Hall of Fame
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A New Way to Spot Text Written by AI, and Other Science News
Research briefs from Columbia
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Is Every Fingerprint Really Unique? AI Tells Us Otherwise
Columbia engineers find that prints from each of your ten digits are not entirely distinct from each other
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Scientists Go Bananas Over Baby Galaxies
Astronomers discover early galaxies shaped like curved, elongated disks