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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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Washing the Water

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When the Net Becomes a Wall

State control, market forces, and the Internet’s power to divide

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See You, Silicon

Columbia researchers achieved major breakthroughs in developing tiny cylindrical pieces of carbon

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Electrical Overload

Dorkbot does "strange things with electricity"

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Diet for a Warm Planet

Columbians work to stem the tide of climate change

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In Brief: Spring 2006

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Saving the Forest by the Trees

Klaus Lackner is on the forefront of carbon sequestration

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Back a While, Crocodile

Sterling Nesbitt makes the discovery of a lifetime: a 210-million-year-old fossil of a previously unknown animal

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The Future Tents

Kinetic sculptor Chuck Hoberman expands the boundaries of design

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The String is the Thing

Brian Greene unravels the fabric of the universe

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How the Gesture Summons the Word

Exploring the link between motion and memory

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Janet Conrad and the Joy of Physics: When Experiment Pushes Theory

For someone who spends so much of her time thinking about neutrinos, Janet Conrad is surprisingly down-to-earth

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