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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

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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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Diet for a Warm Planet

Columbians work to stem the tide of climate change

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In Brief: Spring 2006

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Saving the Forest by the Trees

Klaus Lackner is on the forefront of carbon sequestration

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Back a While, Crocodile

Sterling Nesbitt makes the discovery of a lifetime: a 210-million-year-old fossil of a previously unknown animal

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The Future Tents

Kinetic sculptor Chuck Hoberman expands the boundaries of design

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The String is the Thing

Brian Greene unravels the fabric of the universe

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How the Gesture Summons the Word

Exploring the link between motion and memory

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Janet Conrad and the Joy of Physics: When Experiment Pushes Theory

For someone who spends so much of her time thinking about neutrinos, Janet Conrad is surprisingly down-to-earth

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The World According to Pimm

The biodiversity expert says that by the middle of the twenty-first century, 50 percent of species could be on a path to extinction

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Edwin Armstrong: Pioneer of the Airwaves

The brilliant engineer fought all his life to champion the inventions that made modern radio possible

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Maurice Ewing and the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

In two decades, the division essentially launched whole new scientific fields and revolutionized our understanding of our planet

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I.I. Rabi: Physics and Science at Columbia, in America, and Worldwide

The Nobel Prize-winning physicist and internationally renowned statesman of science was a beloved figure on Morningside Heights for more than half a century

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