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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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Protecting the Grid from the Bomb
Columbia engineers investigate how to avoid a cascading nuclear disaster
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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
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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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Sandy’s Wake
Columbia scientists have long been sounding the climate-change alarm. Will we listen now?
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Black-Hole Hunter
An X-ray telescope whose optics were designed at Columbia is now orbiting Earth
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The Brain Trust
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
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Burgers and Ballots
A political science professor on what really drives voter turnout
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Stormy Someday
Columbia's International Research Institute for Climate and Society holds its monthly long-range forecast briefing
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The Dot Matrix
At Columbia’s Spatial Information Design Lab, researchers are creating urban maps that make points about how we live
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The Gas Menagerie
In his documentary Gasland, Josh Fox '95CC warns that natural-gas extraction will have disastrous effects on our environment
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How Low Can We Go?
Columbia researchers propose what would be the city’s most ambitious land-reclamation project yet
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Known Unknowns
A Columbia class called "Ignorance" invites researchers to publicly expose the gaps in their knowledge