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The launch of the Columbia-led General AntiParticle Spectrometer (GAPS) mission on December 15.
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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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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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What Really Happened on Easter Island?

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

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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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Psst, Bacteria: We Can Hear You!

Columbia researchers have developed a new way to monitor how bacterial cells communicate

Patricia Culligan
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Absorbing the Runoff

Engineering professor Patricia Culligan has a solution to New York's rain-drainage problem

Drone
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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

Peter Kelemen
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The Carbon Eaters

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

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

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

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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

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Protecting the Grid from the Bomb

Columbia engineers investigate how to avoid a cascading nuclear disaster

Telescope
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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

Earth
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Inherit the Wind (and Rain)

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

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