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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

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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Barbel Honisch in lab
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CO2 Shell Game

Geochemists look at shells of single-celled plankton buried under the Atlantic Ocean to estimate past carbon dioxide levels in atmosphere

Monkey taking a metacognition test
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Hanging from the Language Tree

Famous for trying to teach a chimp to speak, psychology professor Herb Terrace is now studying how monkeys think

Columbia engineering students and local high schoolers examine solar panels to be installed at Frederick Douglass Academy in Upper Manhattan
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Solar Heat Made Affordable

Huiming Yin, an assistant professor of engineering, has invented a device that could make sustainable energy available to more U.S. households and businesses

Seismology map of Haiti's coast
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Seismologists Monitoring Continued Quake Threat Near Haiti

Columbia scientists to traverse Haiti’s coast using sonar equipment to find clues about where the earth moved and may move again

Scientist in lab behind telescope
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X-Ray Specs

Columbia astrophysicist Chuck Hailey is building a telescope to view stars so hot they’ve never been seen

East River
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One Fish, Two Fish...

Amphibious Architecture lights up local waterways

Shree Nayer holding BigShot camera
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BigShots, Small Shutterbugs

A camera from computer scientist Shree Nayar is designed to teach youngsters about science while they express themselves creatively

Michael Tuts in lab
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Chasing God's Particle

Columbia physicists hope to soon observe the one elementary particle yet to be discovered of the 17 predicted by contemporary theory

Ken Hunkins in Antarctica in 1957
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On the Top of the World

We look back at a 1957 Columbia exhibition to Antarctica 

Illustration by Mark Steele of man putting ear to telescope eyepiece
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Galactic Gossip

“Eavesdropping on Supermassive Black Holes" at Pupin Hall

Photo by Nick Frearson of Michael Studinger in Antarctica
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A Peak Underneath

Scientists are on the verge of learning how a mountain range trapped within the Antarctic ice sheet got there

Illustration by Arthur E. Giron of a map of America with a pile of coal on top of it
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The Deep Sleep

Are Americans waking up to global warming?

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