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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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Meet the Flockers

At Columbia’s Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology, weather meets feather, beak meets beaker, and the past becomes a forecast

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Death Rights

A postmortem legal expert visits the “Bodies” exhibit

Gulf Coast resident Bridget Hargrove and her family wade in pools away from contaminated ocean water in Grand Islae, La., on May 21. (Reuters / Sean Gardner)
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Children and the Poor Hurt Worst by Gulf Spill

One in five people say they earn less money now than before the spill, and eight percent say they lost their jobs. Households with incomes under $25,000 were most affected

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Creating a Better Biofuel

Engineering professor Scott Banta looks for a cost-efficient replacement for gasoline

Illustration of BP oil spill in Gulf of Mexico
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Oil + Water

Oil industry expert and geophysicist Roger N. Anderson on the technical aspects of the Gulf of Mexico disaster

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Future Shock

A controversial form of stem-cell research is well under way

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Kudzu's March

An invasive plant species found to be causing air pollution

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What Holds Us Together?

Physicist Elena Aprile is close to spotting dark matter

Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Musings of the Spheres

Does space exploration matter? Is there life on other planets? And what about Pluto? Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson '92GSAS tells us what's up

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Desperate Moves

Because of climate change, human migrations could occur on an unprecedented scale by midcentury, according to a new report

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Solar Solution

The U.S. Department of Energy awards Columbia researchers a $16 million, five-year grant to invent more-efficient solar cells

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Radio Active

Radio technology at Columbia from the early 20th century through today

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