Science & Technology

A postmortem legal expert visits the “Bodies” exhibit

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

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

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

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

An invasive plant species found to be causing air pollution

Physicist Elena Aprile is close to spotting dark matter

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

Because of climate change, human migrations could occur on an unprecedented scale by midcentury, according to a new report

The U.S. Department of Energy awards Columbia researchers a $16 million, five-year grant to invent more-efficient solar cells

Radio technology at Columbia from the early 20th century through today

Geochemists look at shells of single-celled plankton buried under the Atlantic Ocean to estimate past carbon dioxide levels in atmosphere