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Could Life Be Made Simpler?
Researchers have created a bacterium that thrives with nineteen amino acids instead of twenty
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Chatbots Have Entered the Classroom. What Happens Next?
Columbia faculty are finding innovative ways to incorporate AI into coursework without compromising academic rigor
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How Seriously Should We Take UFO Sightings?
Columbia alien hunter David Kipping on the odds of finding company in the cosmos
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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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
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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
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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
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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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Fiscal Discipline
A study makes the case for a frequently maligned mortgage type
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Pay for Peace
A Columbia political scientist concludes that UN peacekeeping missions are overwhelmingly successful
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Airfare for the Common Man
Artist and peace activist Namira Salim '96SIPA buys a ticket to space
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New Starry Night
A physics professor has developed optics technology that could enable astronomers to study black holes that have never been seen clearly before
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Pedals, Chutes & Leaves
Columbia researchers help cyclists in Africa build sturdier bikes using locally available resources
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A Fall of Moondust
An astronomer offers an explanation for mysterious putts of light on the lunar surface