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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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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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Science & Technology

Self-Aware Robots? Engineers Edge Toward Elusive Goal

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

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Science & Technology

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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Science & Technology

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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Science & Technology

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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Science & Technology

A Laboratory Fit for Lockdown

Take-home kits allow Columbia Engineering students to conduct experiments in their pajamas

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Science & Technology

7 New Research Findings from Columbia

An ice sheet reveals a surprise, and other discoveries

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Science & Technology

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

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Science & Technology

A New Way to Save Coral Reefs, and Other Research Findings

7 recent discoveries from Columbia scientists

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Science & Technology

Astrophysicist Brian Metzger Named 2020 Blavatnik Laureate

The award is the largest unrestricted scientific prize for young researchers in the US

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