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Science & Technology

Can a Spacesuit Designed for Mars Protect Us from the Next Pandemic?

NASA veteran Lawrence Kuznetz ’64SEAS, ’65SEAS builds apparel to shield humans from earthly and extraterrestrial ills

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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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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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What Really Happened on Easter Island?

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

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The Strange Saga of Columbia’s Nuclear Reactor

A plan to build an atom-splitter in Mudd Hall divided the campus. Was the uproar an overreaction? 

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Can AI Fill a Gap in Childhood Speech Therapy?

Sara, a startup co-founded by Jiaxin Zhang ’25BUS, seeks to make articulation therapy more accessible — and fun

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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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Writing Negative Reviews is Good for Your Health, and Other Surprising Discoveries

The latest research from Columbia scientists

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An Ancient Black Hole Collision Reverberates

Columbia astronomers recently detected a faraway event that challenges existing theories about black-hole formation

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Why US Cities Are Sinking

New research reveals the toll of massive groundwater extraction in cities from Houston to New York

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A Brief History of Science Funding

Universities have come to rely on federal funding to support scientific and medical research. How did we get here?

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Science & Technology

It’s Easier to ‘Just Be Yourself’ When You’re Popular

Social psychologists at Columbia Business School find that people with higher social status have the privilege of acting more “authentic” 

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3D Imaging Just Got Easier

A powerful new microscope could enable more scientists around the world to conduct cutting-edge biomedical research

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Scientists Edge Closer to Affordable Superconductors

Novel materials could eventually power electric vehicles and more, say Columbia researchers

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Artificial Intelligence vs. the Human Brain

At Columbia’s inaugural AI Summit, experts touted the technology’s promise and agreed that robots still have a long way to go

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How Congestion Pricing Got Moving at Columbia

The experimental initiative for reducing city traffic was conceived by economics professor William Vickrey ’47GSAS

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