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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

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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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CO2 May Get Ocean Burial

Scientists say we need to minimize the amount of carbon dioxide that coal factories spew into the air, in addition to developing cleaner forms of energy

Map of New York City with hypothetical flooding from a hurricane after significant sea-level rise
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Let's See if It Floats

Columbia scientists are helping New York officials figure out how to prepare for rising sea levels

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Greenhouse Blowback?

Many U.S. lawmakers worry that global crises are more likely to occur as the planet warms

James Hansen addressing a congressional global warming committee
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Hansen to Congress: Time is Running Out to Save Environment

The Columbia professor recently returned to Capitol Hill

Emperor penguins in Antarctica
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Study Links Thousands of Ecological Changes to Human-Induced Warming

A paper from Columbia is the first to formally connect specific instances of environmental disruption to greenhouse gas emissions

Illustration by Daniel Bejar of American bald eagle stuck in an oil rig
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States of Dependence

Can America withstand the world's thirst for oil?

Brooklyn Bridge
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Mending Bridges

Raimondo Betti, a Columbia professor of civil engineering, is developing a new method for detecting corrosion in suspension-bridge cables

Wall of stone
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Rock-solid Co2 Storage

Scientists have devised a new method to store carbon dioxide underground so that it doesn't linger in the atmosphere and contribute to global warming

Illustration by Keith Negley of Columbia's Butler Library attached to the back of a laptop
Science & Technology

Overbooked?

The Internet is changing scholarship and the way we read — and not always for the best

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Science & Technology

Fiscal Discipline

A study makes the case for a frequently maligned mortgage type

Peace dove
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Pay for Peace

A Columbia political scientist concludes that UN peacekeeping missions are overwhelmingly successful

Columbia physicists with the Pupin cyclotron circa 1940
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Gone Fission

Columbia's cyclotron to be dismantled and sold for scrap

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