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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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Desperate Moves
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Desperate Moves

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

Solar Solution
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Solar Solution

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

Radio Active
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Radio Active

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

CO2 Shell Game
Barbel Honisch in lab
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CO2 Shell Game

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

Hanging from the Language Tree
Monkey taking a metacognition test
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Hanging from the Language Tree

Famous for trying to teach a chimp to speak, psychology professor Herb Terrace is now studying how monkeys think

Solar Heat Made Affordable
Columbia engineering students and local high schoolers examine solar panels to be installed at Frederick Douglass Academy in Upper Manhattan
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Solar Heat Made Affordable

Huiming Yin, an assistant professor of engineering, has invented a device that could make sustainable energy available to more U.S. households and businesses

Seismologists Monitoring Continued Quake Threat Near Haiti
Seismology map of Haiti's coast
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Seismologists Monitoring Continued Quake Threat Near Haiti

Columbia scientists to traverse Haiti’s coast using sonar equipment to find clues about where the earth moved and may move again

X-Ray Specs
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X-Ray Specs

Columbia astrophysicist Chuck Hailey is building a telescope to view stars so hot they’ve never been seen

One Fish, Two Fish...
East River
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One Fish, Two Fish...

Amphibious Architecture lights up local waterways

BigShots, Small Shutterbugs
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BigShots, Small Shutterbugs

A camera from computer scientist Shree Nayar is designed to teach youngsters about science while they express themselves creatively

Chasing God's Particle
Michael Tuts in lab
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Chasing God's Particle

Columbia physicists hope to soon observe the one elementary particle yet to be discovered of the 17 predicted by contemporary theory

On the Top of the World
Ken Hunkins in Antarctica in 1957
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On the Top of the World

We look back at a 1957 Columbia exhibition to Antarctica 

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