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Scientists Edge Closer to Affordable Superconductors
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Scientists Edge Closer to Affordable Superconductors

Novel materials could eventually power electric vehicles and more, say Columbia researchers

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What Your Facial Features Say About You
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What Your Facial Features Say About You

Columbia psychologists unmask the perceptual biases that shape our impressions of one another

How ISIS Really Recruits its Members
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How ISIS Really Recruits its Members

A study looks at what makes the group’s online propaganda successful

What Declassified Government Documents Reveal About America’s Dark Secrets
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Christopher Silas Neal

What Declassified Government Documents Reveal About America’s Dark Secrets

At the Columbia History Lab, Matthew Connelly ’90CC uses data science to uncover long-hidden files

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In the Shape of a Fruit, a Blueprint for Robotics
Xi Chen
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In the Shape of a Fruit, a Blueprint for Robotics

What Bugs Mosquitoes?
Szabolcs Marka in lab
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What Bugs Mosquitoes?

Szabolcs Marka is developing a virtual mosquito net with infrared light vibrating at wavelengths that will irritate the insects

What Happened to Angkor?
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What Happened to Angkor?

Columbia tree-ring scientists journey to a remote forest in Cambodia to search for clues about the demise of a lost civilization

Meet the Flockers
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Meet the Flockers

At Columbia’s Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology, weather meets feather, beak meets beaker, and the past becomes a forecast

Death Rights
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Death Rights

A postmortem legal expert visits the “Bodies” exhibit

Children and the Poor Hurt Worst by Gulf Spill
Gulf Coast resident Bridget Hargrove and her family wade in pools away from contaminated ocean water in Grand Islae, La., on May 21. (Reuters / Sean Gardner)
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Children and the Poor Hurt Worst by Gulf Spill

One in five people say they earn less money now than before the spill, and eight percent say they lost their jobs. Households with incomes under $25,000 were most affected

Creating a Better Biofuel
Scott Banta in lab
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Creating a Better Biofuel

Engineering professor Scott Banta looks for a cost-efficient replacement for gasoline

Oil + Water
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Oil + Water

Oil industry expert and geophysicist Roger N. Anderson on the technical aspects of the Gulf of Mexico disaster

Future Shock
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Future Shock

A controversial form of stem-cell research is well under way

Kudzu's March
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Kudzu's March

An invasive plant species found to be causing air pollution

What Holds Us Together?
Elena Aprile in lab
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What Holds Us Together?

Physicist Elena Aprile is close to spotting dark matter

Musings of the Spheres
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Musings of the Spheres

Does space exploration matter? Is there life on other planets? And what about Pluto? Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson '92GSAS tells us what's up

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