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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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A Secret History

Science and technology historian Matthew Jones breaks down the history of snooping

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Whose Galaxy Is It?

As astronomers discover a universe flush with potentially life-supporting planets, it seems more and more likely that we are not alone

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Underwater, Another Carbon Problem

Human-caused climate change could have an unprecedented effect on marine life

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A Sound of Trumpets

The global lust for ivory threatens to silence the African elephant forever. Can a hidden remnant of the Cold War help stem the slaughter?

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Fickle Fortunes

A surprising number of Americans cycle in and out of poverty. Columbia researchers have embarked on an ambitious study to find out why

Olajide Williams
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Spotting Strokes

A video game that parents will want their kids to play

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Dusty Air Contributing to Disease in Africa

Columbia climate scientists have discovered why outbreaks of bacterial meningitis are seasonal

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Psst, Bacteria: We Can Hear You!

Columbia researchers have developed a new way to monitor how bacterial cells communicate

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Absorbing the Runoff

Engineering professor Patricia Culligan has a solution to New York's rain-drainage problem

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Drone Onward

Andrea Gilli, an Italian visiting scholar, lectures at Columbia's Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies

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The Ghost Files

Can big-data analysis show what kinds of information the government is keeping classified?

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Global Warnings

Jason Bordoff, director of Columbia’s Center on Global Energy Policy, speaks about climate change

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