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Science & Technology

The Deepfake Scam Era Is Upon Us. Here’s How to Get Ready.

Columbia cybersecurity expert Asaf Cidon explains the eerie rise of AI-powered email, phone, and video scams — and how anyone can fall for them

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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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Women Earn Half as Much After Having Children, Finds New Study

Columbia researchers calculate the true price of motherhood

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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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Science & Technology

A Better Way to Fight Workplace Racial Bias

Diversity training programs may be inadequate, say Columbia sociologists

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The Amazing Gender-Bending Behavior of Hummingbirds

Columbia scientists discover why female white-necked jacobins often masquerade as males

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Cryptocurrency and the Future of Your Money

Columbia expert R.A. Farrokhnia breaks down the impact of blockchain and other financial technologies

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Cholesterol’s Cumulative Toll, and Other Columbia Discoveries

Research briefs from University scientists

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Science & Technology

Why Diamonds Are a Geologist’s Best Friend

The gems could help answer fundamental questions about our planet’s early history

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Can AI Explain Vaccine Hesitancy?

Columbia researchers are using artificial intelligence to better understand public dissent on social media

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What This Bird Can Teach Us About Memory

The brain power of the tufted titmouse has long amazed ornithologists

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Science & Technology

Excessive Jargon is a Sign of Insecurity, and Other Research Findings

The latest studies from Columbia

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Science & Technology

What Are They Thinking?

For science educator Michelle Ashkin '04GSAS, teaching people about the minds of other species is more than a passion 

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Science & Technology

These Dinosaurs Were Homebodies, and Now Scientists Know Why

Some of the earliest-known dinosaurs waited millions of years before wandering out of South America

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Science & Technology

Black Holes Could Be Tapped for Energy, Say Physicists

Scientists offer a new take on the theory

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Science & Technology

Bacteria Employed as "Living Hard Drives"

Columbia scientists are encoding digital information into E. coli cells

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