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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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Galactic Gossip
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Galactic Gossip

“Eavesdropping on Supermassive Black Holes" at Pupin Hall

A Peak Underneath
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A Peak Underneath

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

The Deep Sleep
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The Deep Sleep

Are Americans waking up to global warming?

CO2 May Get Ocean Burial
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CO2 May Get Ocean Burial

Scientists say we need to minimize the amount of carbon dioxide that coal factories spew into the air, in addition to developing cleaner forms of energy

Let's See if It Floats
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Let's See if It Floats

Columbia scientists are helping New York officials figure out how to prepare for rising sea levels

Greenhouse Blowback?
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Greenhouse Blowback?

Many U.S. lawmakers worry that global crises are more likely to occur as the planet warms

Hansen to Congress: Time is Running Out to Save Environment
James Hansen addressing a congressional global warming committee
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Hansen to Congress: Time is Running Out to Save Environment

The Columbia professor recently returned to Capitol Hill

Study Links Thousands of Ecological Changes to Human-Induced Warming
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Study Links Thousands of Ecological Changes to Human-Induced Warming

A paper from Columbia is the first to formally connect specific instances of environmental disruption to greenhouse gas emissions

States of Dependence
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States of Dependence

Can America withstand the world's thirst for oil?

Mending Bridges
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Mending Bridges

Raimondo Betti, a Columbia professor of civil engineering, is developing a new method for detecting corrosion in suspension-bridge cables

Rock-solid Co2 Storage
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Rock-solid Co2 Storage

Scientists have devised a new method to store carbon dioxide underground so that it doesn't linger in the atmosphere and contribute to global warming

Overbooked?
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Overbooked?

The Internet is changing scholarship and the way we read — and not always for the best

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