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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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A New Way to Spot Text Written by AI, and Other Science News
Research briefs from Columbia
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Is Every Fingerprint Really Unique? AI Tells Us Otherwise
Columbia engineers find that prints from each of your ten digits are not entirely distinct from each other
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Scientists Go Bananas Over Baby Galaxies
Astronomers discover early galaxies shaped like curved, elongated disks
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How Farm Animal Burps Are Fueling Global Warming
Columbia environmental scientist Catherine Ivanovich wants us to understand the impacts of the food we eat
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Could Beavers Help Save Us from Climate Disaster?
Leila Philip ’91SOA spent six years researching an underappreciated animal for her book Beaverland
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What Your Facial Features Say About You
Columbia psychologists unmask the perceptual biases that shape our impressions of one another
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How Gro Intelligence is Fighting World Hunger with Tech
The company, founded by Sara Menker ’12BUS, seeks to optimize agricultural intelligence around the world
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The Hidden Potential of Zombie Office Towers
Researchers make the case for converting commercial buildings into apartments
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Women Earn Half as Much After Having Children, Finds New Study
Columbia researchers calculate the true price of motherhood
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Drones and AI Are New Recruits in Battle Against Land Mines
The technology locates explosives faster and more safely than treacherous manual methods
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Professor Louis Brus Wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry
The scientist was recognized for developing quantum dots, infinitesimal man-made crystals with special optical properties
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What Triggers Male Rage? Betta Fish May Hold Clues
A Columbia neurobiologist fishes for an aggression gene