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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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Water Wars
A drought as severe as the 1930s Dust Bowl could ignite conflicts over water, scientists say
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Study Briefs From Columbia Researchers
A new paper on "superstar cities," and more
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Is This Thing On?
Electrical engineering professor Dan Ellis creates a "life log"
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Breaking News
Wall Street puts the squeeze on newspapers trying to move to the Internet
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Computer, Heal Thyself
Associate professor Angelos Keromytis has developed a way for computers to automatically fix security breaches
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Fire on the Horizon
Researchers make a major discovery concerning faraway planet Upsilon Andromeda b
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When the Net Becomes a Wall
State control, market forces, and the Internet’s power to divide
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See You, Silicon
Columbia researchers achieved major breakthroughs in developing tiny cylindrical pieces of carbon