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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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The Super Canines of Chernobyl, and Other Science News
The latest research from Columbia
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First Extraterrestrial Archive Opens at Columbia
The University is teaming up with NASA to create a first-of-its kind online library of geochemical data
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What Declassified Government Documents Reveal About America’s Dark Secrets
At the Columbia History Lab, Matthew Connelly ’90CC uses data science to uncover long-hidden files
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The Need to Protect the Data in Our Brains
In Theater of Thought, Rafael Yuste explores the intersections of privacy and neurotechnology with Werner Herzog
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The Columbia Telescope That Changed How We See the World
Why the Rutherfurd Telescope is legendary among astronomy aficionados
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Can We Act Sooner to Save Endangered Species?
At-risk animal populations should receive protections earlier, urge Columbia researchers
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The Case of the Well-Dressed Panhandler
Clothing choices matter when soliciting spare change, find Columbia Business School researchers
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Tree Rings Solve Mystery of 19th-Century Shipwreck
Columbia scientists formally identify the Dolphin, a lost Rhode Island whaler from the 1850s
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Columbia Engineering Leads Major Initiative on Smart Streetscapes
The National Science Foundation has awarded a $26 million grant to develop a new research center
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Do We Underestimate the Speed and Scale of Global Warming?
Temperatures are beginning to rise much faster than expected, claims a new study
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Coyotes and Other Wild Animals Move into New York City
Urban critters such as possums, skunks, and groundhogs are growing in numbers, say Columbia researchers