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Why You Can’t Always Trust Your Memory
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Why You Can’t Always Trust Your Memory

Erin Kendall Braun ’09GS, ’18GSAS, a cognitive neuroscientist and memory expert, brings her insight to the courtroom and beyond

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Beneath Bangladesh, a Tectonic Time Bomb
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Beneath Bangladesh, a Tectonic Time Bomb

The earthquake will come. No one can say when. But scientists warn that it could be huge

What Really Happened on Easter Island?
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What Really Happened on Easter Island?

A Columbia study helps debunk an old theory about the island’s mysterious past

25 Columbia Ideas and Innovations that Changed the World
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25 Columbia Ideas and Innovations that Changed the World

From antibiotics to blood banks, radio waves to video calls, we spotlight the biggest scientific breakthroughs in medicine, technology, and more

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Cholesterol’s Cumulative Toll, and Other Columbia Discoveries
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Cholesterol’s Cumulative Toll, and Other Columbia Discoveries

Research briefs from University scientists

Why Diamonds Are a Geologist’s Best Friend
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Why Diamonds Are a Geologist’s Best Friend

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

Can AI Explain Vaccine Hesitancy?
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Can AI Explain Vaccine Hesitancy?

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

What This Bird Can Teach Us About Memory
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What This Bird Can Teach Us About Memory

The brain power of the tufted titmouse has long amazed ornithologists

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

The latest studies from Columbia

What Are They Thinking?
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What Are They Thinking?

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

These Dinosaurs Were Homebodies, and Now Scientists Know Why
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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

Black Holes Could Be Tapped for Energy, Say Physicists
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Black Holes Could Be Tapped for Energy, Say Physicists

Scientists offer a new take on the theory

Bacteria Employed as "Living Hard Drives"
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Bacteria Employed as "Living Hard Drives"

Columbia scientists are encoding digital information into E. coli cells

Physicist Chien-Shiung Wu Honored with US Postage Stamp
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Physicist Chien-Shiung Wu Honored with US Postage Stamp

Wu was Columbia's first tenured female physics professor and one of the most influential nuclear physicists of her generation

Self-Aware Robots? Engineers Edge Toward Elusive Goal
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Self-Aware Robots? Engineers Edge Toward Elusive Goal

A new android designed at Columbia displays a “glimmer of empathy” 

How to Prepare for a "Megadisaster"
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How to Prepare for a "Megadisaster"

Submerged cities. Food shortages. Attacks on the electrical grid. Bioterrorism. It’s time to get ready for tomorrow’s catastrophes

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