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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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Fickle Fortunes
A surprising number of Americans cycle in and out of poverty. Columbia researchers have embarked on an ambitious study to find out why
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Dusty Air Contributing to Disease in Africa
Columbia climate scientists have discovered why outbreaks of bacterial meningitis are seasonal
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Psst, Bacteria: We Can Hear You!
Columbia researchers have developed a new way to monitor how bacterial cells communicate
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Absorbing the Runoff
Engineering professor Patricia Culligan has a solution to New York's rain-drainage problem
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Drone Onward
Andrea Gilli, an Italian visiting scholar, lectures at Columbia's Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies
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The Ghost Files
Can big-data analysis show what kinds of information the government is keeping classified?
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Global Warnings
Jason Bordoff, director of Columbia’s Center on Global Energy Policy, speaks about climate change
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The Carbon Eaters
Geochemist Peter Kelemen thinks a solution to global warming could lie beneath our feet
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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
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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
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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