Science & Technology

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

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

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

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

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

Amphibious Architecture lights up local waterways

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

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

We look back at a 1957 Columbia exhibition to Antarctica 

“Eavesdropping on Supermassive Black Holes" at Pupin Hall

Scientists are on the verge of learning how a mountain range trapped within the Antarctic ice sheet got there

Are Americans waking up to global warming?