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An illustration of E. coli
Science & Technology

Could Life Be Made Simpler?

Researchers have created a bacterium that thrives with nineteen amino acids instead of twenty

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Illustration by Josie Norton depicting AI in the classroom

Chatbots Have Entered the Classroom. What Happens Next?

Columbia faculty are finding innovative ways to incorporate AI into coursework without compromising academic rigor

Image of a UFO in a night sky
Anton Petrus

How Seriously Should We Take UFO Sightings?

Columbia alien hunter David Kipping on the odds of finding company in the cosmos

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

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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

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

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 

Illustration by Mark Steele of man putting ear to telescope eyepiece
Science & Technology

Galactic Gossip

“Eavesdropping on Supermassive Black Holes" at Pupin Hall

Photo by Nick Frearson of Michael Studinger in Antarctica
Science & Technology

A Peak Underneath

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

Illustration by Arthur E. Giron of a map of America with a pile of coal on top of it
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The Deep Sleep

Are Americans waking up to global warming?

Diagram of CO2 buried underground
Science & Technology

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

Map of New York City with hypothetical flooding from a hurricane after significant sea-level rise
Science & Technology

Let's See if It Floats

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

Map of world water supplies
Science & Technology

Greenhouse Blowback?

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

James Hansen addressing a congressional global warming committee
Science & Technology

Hansen to Congress: Time is Running Out to Save Environment

The Columbia professor recently returned to Capitol Hill

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