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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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Could AI Mend a Broken Heart?
Inward, cofounded by Ying Laohachewin ’15BUS, brings the healing power of support groups to your phone
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A Columbia Climate Scientist Reviews Autumn in New York
Mukund Palat Rao ’20GSAS discusses this year's foliage outlook and how a warming planet may affect future seasons
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Saluting Marie Tharp, the Trailblazing Scientist Whose Maps Shook the World
The Columbia cartographer’s discovery of undersea rift valleys helped seal the theory of continental drift
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Is America in Moral Decline?
Columbia researchers say the actual data on decency will surprise you
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Stargaze with Columbia Astronomers
Columbia Astronomy Public Outreach wants everyone to experience the wonders of the universe
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Mud, Dung, Banana Fiber: Why Natural Building Materials Are Making a Comeback
Columbia researchers led by Lola Ben-Alon are looking to the ancient past for greener, cleaner alternatives to concrete and steel
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It Takes a Flock: What Songbirds Can Teach Us about Strong Bonds
Columbia scientists shed new light on how superb starling communities survive and thrive
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Survey: 3 out of 4 Chinese-Americans Experience Racism
A surge of prejudice that emerged in the US during the COVID-19 pandemic does not seem to be abating
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Columbia and NYC Parks Team Up to Tackle Toxic Algae Blooms
Researchers will study a pond in Morningside Park
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The Secrets of Black Rock Forest
At an Upstate New York nature preserve, Columbia researchers are decoding the natural world in order to conserve it
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The Incredible Environmental Benefits of NYC Trees
A study reveals how urban green spaces absorb carbon dioxide and combat global warming
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How Our Most Meaningful Memories Are Made
Neuroscientists are closer to solving one of the mysteries of the human brain