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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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What Exxon Knew

The company spent tens of millions of dollars between 1998 and 2005 on public-relations campaigns that questioned climate science

Black holes
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Front-Row Seats to the Death of a Galaxy

Two supermassive black holes in the constellation Virgo are likely to smash together in about one hundred thousand years

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The Next Move for Planet Earth

What game theory can teach us about climate-change negotiations

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Study Hall: Fall 2015

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Fill 'er Up — With Bacteria?

A miniature car powered by microbes and evaporating water is the latest invention to come out of the laboratory of biophysicist Ozgur Sahin

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Why Some Companies Don't Invest in Cybersecurity

Benjamin Dean ’14SIPA, a fellow for Internet governance and cybersecurity, says they have little financial incentive to do so

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Creature Teachers

Saharan silver ants, big brown bats, and dinosaur eels are among our best engineers

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Scientists Find Tools that Predate Earliest Known Humans

Columbia geologists Christopher Lepre and Dennis Kent ’74GSAS assess a momentous discovery

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Liquid Assets

As the California drought brings home the global problem of water scarcity, Columbia engineers are advancing a challenging idea: reusing our wastewater

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Face­-to-­Face Dialogues Seen as Key to Breaking Down Bigotry

A Columbia study has found that people opposed to same-sex marriage will often reverse their stance after a single conversation with a gay canvasser

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The New Rules of Networking

Social-networking evangelist Sree Sreenivasan '93JRN has advice for new graduates: link in, tweet on, and connect often

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Seeds of Hope

In Uruguay, Columbia scientists are working on a forecasting system to help farmers cope with climate change

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