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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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The Challenger explosion

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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Peter Kelemen
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The Carbon Eaters

Geochemist Peter Kelemen thinks a solution to global warming could lie beneath our feet

Paul Olsen
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Mass Extinction Pinned to Volcanism

A new study provides the best evidence yet that fiery eruptions caused a mass extinction two hundred million years ago

Jason Bordoff
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Charting the World's Energy Future

Former White House energy adviser Jason Bordoff leads the new Center on Global Energy Policy

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Heady Collisions

What were conditions like .000000001 seconds after the Big Bang? Columbia scientists think the answer could hold a great secret of the universe

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Protecting the Grid from the Bomb

Columbia engineers investigate how to avoid a cascading nuclear disaster

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A Shot in the Light

NASA-backed scientists, led at Columbia by Amber Miller, are aiming a new telescope at a most distant target

Earth
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Inherit the Wind (and Rain)

Speakers discuss planet fitness at the 2012 State of the Planet Conference.

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Sandy’s Wake

Columbia scientists have long been sounding the climate-change alarm. Will we listen now?

NASA scientists with the NuSTAR X-ray telescope
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Black-Hole Hunter

An X-ray telescope whose optics were designed at Columbia is now orbiting Earth

Illustration of scientists and Columbia's Mind, Brain, and Behavior center by Mark Steele
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The Brain Trust

Columbia’s Mind, Brain, and Behavior Initiative is assembling the best thinkers in the world to study the most complex object in the known universe

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Burgers and Ballots

A political science professor on what really drives voter turnout

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Stormy Someday

Columbia's International Research Institute for Climate and Society holds its monthly long-range forecast briefing

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