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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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Stunning Video Shows Neurons in Action

Liveaction 3D footage reveals the nervous system of a fruit-fly larva as it crawls

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Spot a Tick? Snap a Pic

Citizen scientists can help combat Lyme disease with a new app

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How Congress Misreads Public Opinion

New research shows that senior congressional aides have wildly inaccurate perceptions of their constituents’ views

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The Great Rain Robbery

An ongoing drought in the American West has been made 38 percent more severe by global warming

Columbia Engineering dean Mary Boyce and Governor Andrew Cuomo lead an inspection of New York City’s 14th Street tunnel.
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Engineers Avert L Train “Apocalypse”

Dean Mary C. Boyce and colleagues develop an alternative plan that avoids major subway closures

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Study Hall: Spring 2019

The latest research briefs from Columbia

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An App that Offers Microfinance on Demand

Shivani Siroya ’06PH is fighting global poverty with tech company Tala

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Turning Dross Into Gold

What if steel companies could recycle waste material and repurpose it for other industrial uses? 

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Can AI Defeat the Dreaded Tsetse Fly?

A new weapon against one of the world's most dangerous insects

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What do Retail Workers Want? Just a Little Respect

Columbia sociologists reveal why it has been so difficult to organize workers at places like Walmart

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What Fish Can Teach Us About Our Powers of Perception

The African elephant-nose fish recognizes unimportant internal stimuli and summarily blocks them out

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Martin Rees Reads the 2050 Tea Leaves

The British Astronomer Royal prognosticates about the future of our planet

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