Science & Technology

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

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