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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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Making Room for Tigers
Ecologists are studying new ways to protect the big cats’ need to roam
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Jurassic Parka: How Dinosaurs Survived the Cold
New fossil discovery suggests dinos could tolerate chillier climates
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War Atrocities in Yemen Linked to US Weapons
Columbia Law School researchers have unveiled a disturbing connection between American arms and civilian deaths
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Biomedical Engineers Can Now Watch Our Organs Talk to Each Other
In a plastic device the size of a credit card, tissues communicate with each other through a shared blood supply
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Having Kids May Lead to Brain Damage, and Other Science News
Recent discoveries from Columbia researchers
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The Sharks Are Back in New York
A sailing anthropologist sinks his teeth into human-shark relations
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Lazy Bears and Confused Birds: What a Warming Planet Means for Wildlife
How climate change is taking its toll on animal behavior
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The Magic of Building with Mushrooms
Fungus-based construction materials could be useful in remote settings or at the scenes of natural disasters
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My Cuttlefish Teacher
Columbia research shows how the intelligent cephalopods become masters of disguise
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A Simple Way to Reframe Bad Memories
Columbia researchers on how to rewire our most embarrassing, depressing, and guilt-inducing recollections
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An Investment in Babies’ Brains, and Other Columbia Research
6 new scientific discoveries
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Study of Sheep Poop Leads to Huge Scoop on the Vikings
Clues buried in mud bust a centuries-old myth about the ancient warriors