Science & Technology

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

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

Columbia engineers investigate how to avoid a cascading nuclear disaster

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

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

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

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

Columbia’s Mind, Brain, and Behavior Initiative is assembling the best thinkers in the world to study the most complex object in the known universe

A political science professor on what really drives voter turnout

Columbia's International Research Institute for Climate and Society holds its monthly long-range forecast briefing

At Columbia’s Spatial Information Design Lab, researchers are creating urban maps that make points about how we live

In his documentary Gasland, Josh Fox '95CC warns that natural-gas extraction will have disastrous effects on our environment