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The launch of the Columbia-led General AntiParticle Spectrometer (GAPS) mission on December 15.
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Could a Giant Helium Balloon in Antarctica Help Find Dark Matter?

A particle detector deployed by Columbia scientists is looking for traces of antideuterons in the atmosphere

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The Challenger explosion

How the Challenger Disaster Became a Case Study of the ‘Normalization of Deviance’

Forty years after the tragedy, Columbia sociologist Diane Vaughan reflects on her landmark work on organizational decision-making

Sculptures on Easter Island

What Really Happened on Easter Island?

A Columbia study helps debunk an old theory about the island’s mysterious past

Illustration of face being painted on digital head

The Deepfake Scam Era Is Upon Us. Here’s How to Get Ready.

Columbia cybersecurity expert Asaf Cidon explains the eerie rise of AI-powered email, phone, and video scams — and how anyone can fall for them

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Elena Aprile in lab
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What Holds Us Together?

Physicist Elena Aprile is close to spotting dark matter

Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Musings of the Spheres

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

Photo of a street sign submerged in water from flood
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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 panel
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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

Illustration by Mark Steele of walkie talkies running a marathon
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Radio Active

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

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

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

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

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

Scientist in lab behind telescope
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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

East River
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One Fish, Two Fish...

Amphibious Architecture lights up local waterways

Shree Nayer holding BigShot camera
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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

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