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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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Black Holes Could Be Tapped for Energy, Say Physicists
Scientists offer a new take on the theory
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Bacteria Employed as "Living Hard Drives"
Columbia scientists are encoding digital information into E. coli cells
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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
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Self-Aware Robots? Engineers Edge Toward Elusive Goal
A new android designed at Columbia displays a “glimmer of empathy”
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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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In Pursuit of Dark Matter
Columbia physicists confront one of the most confounding mysteries in science
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Scientists Decipher the Hidden Past of the "Blue-Ring Nebula"
For years, astronomers have been puzzled by a massive gas cloud that encircles a star some six thousand light-years away
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Researchers Call for Clean-Energy Push
A new report provides a roadmap for how the US can help stave off the most catastrophic consequences of global warming
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Columbia, Amazon to Launch New AI Research Center
The new Columbia Center of Artificial Intelligence Technology in Collaboration with Amazon will support fellowships, research projects, and more
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A Laboratory Fit for Lockdown
Take-home kits allow Columbia Engineering students to conduct experiments in their pajamas
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7 New Research Findings from Columbia
An ice sheet reveals a surprise, and other discoveries
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Columbia Physicists to Upgrade Atom Smasher
The scientists are leading a multi-institution effort to increase the power of the ATLAS particle detector at the Large Hadron Collider