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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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Select Memories Can be Erased

Neuroscientists from Columbia and McGill have found a way to selectively erase memories in sea slugs

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Extinction Risks Wildly Underestimated

A study suggests that the International Union for Conservation of Nature vastly underestimates the number of species at risk of extinction

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The Ice Detectives

Columbia researchers go to the ends of the earth to crack the coldest case of all

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Study Hall: Summer 2017

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No-Spin Zone

How to talk when we talk about science

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Painted by Mr. Robot

Can machines be curious and expressive? Researchers at Columbia’s Creative Machines Lab think so

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Deep Beneath the Dead Sea, a Harbinger of Future Drought

The Middle East, like many arid regions, is expected to get even drier this century as a result of global warming

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The Rove Beetles' Magical Mystery Lure

What looks like an ant, acts like an ant, smells like an ant, and yet is not an ant?

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How “Citizens United” Changed Our Politics

Since the US Supreme Court ruling, an unprecedented amount of money has poured into American elections

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The Future of Data Storage is in Our DNA

Scientists have begun experimenting with putting data onto nature’s original hard drive

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Study Hall: Spring 2017

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All the Food that's Fit to Print

Someday there might be a 3D printer ready to print dinner

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