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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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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
What Really Happened on Easter Island?
A Columbia study helps debunk an old theory about the island’s mysterious past
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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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
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Old-School Tools
The Homo erectus used advanced tool-making methods at least 300,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to a new study
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Parks and Re-creation: African American Village Unearthed
Anthropologists dig up artifacts from Seneca Village, one of Manhattan's early African American settlements
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New Crop City
Can Dickson Despommier’s radical vision for urban agriculture take root in the United States?