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Science & Technology

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

Sculptures on Easter Island

What Really Happened on Easter Island?

A Columbia study helps debunk an old theory about the island’s mysterious past

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Data visualization of social media user activity in New York City
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The Dot Matrix

At Columbia’s Spatial Information Design Lab, researchers are creating urban maps that make points about how we live

A natural-gas drilling site in northeastern Pennsylvania
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The Gas Menagerie

In his documentary Gasland, Josh Fox '95CC warns that natural-gas extraction will have disastrous effects on our environment

Rendering of NYC land bridge between Lower Manhattan and Governor's Island
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How Low Can We Go?

Columbia researchers propose what would be the city’s most ambitious land-reclamation project yet

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Known Unknowns

A Columbia class called "Ignorance" invites researchers to publicly expose the gaps in their knowledge

Ancient hand axes
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Old-School Tools

The Homo erectus used advanced tool-making methods at least 300,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to a new study

Madeline Landry and Ashton Dorminvil researching the remains of Seneca Village
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Parks and Re-creation: African American Village Unearthed

Anthropologists dig up artifacts from Seneca Village, one of Manhattan's early African American settlements

Illustration of city with greenhouse buildings
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New Crop City

Can Dickson Despommier’s radical vision for urban agriculture take root in the United States?

Beach on the Marshall Islands
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Survival Islands

If an entire nation is made uninhabitable by rising seas, what is owed to its people?

Sewage treatment technicians in Accra, Ghana
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Waste-to-Fuel Project Launches in Ghana

Environmental engineer Kartik Chandran has developed an unusually efficient way to turn nitrogen and other organic compounds from human waste into biodiesel

Xi Chen
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In the Shape of a Fruit, a Blueprint for Robotics

Szabolcs Marka in lab
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What Bugs Mosquitoes?

Szabolcs Marka is developing a virtual mosquito net with infrared light vibrating at wavelengths that will irritate the insects

Mountains in Cambodia
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What Happened to Angkor?

Columbia tree-ring scientists journey to a remote forest in Cambodia to search for clues about the demise of a lost civilization

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