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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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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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Science & Technology

What Really Happened on Easter Island?

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

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Science & Technology

Are We Really All Suckers for Fake News?

A new study sheds light on the need for greater media literacy

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Science & Technology

Why Vultures Need Our Protection

Corinne Kendall ’08GSAS, one of America’s top vulture experts, is working to preserve an unfairly maligned bird of prey

Disney Imagineer Lanny Smoot
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Disney ‘Imagineer’ Lanny Smoot’s Lightsaber Moment

The engineer joins the National Inventors Hall of Fame

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Science & Technology

A New Way to Spot Text Written by AI, and Other Science News

Research briefs from Columbia

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Is Every Fingerprint Really Unique? AI Tells Us Otherwise

Columbia engineers find that prints from each of your ten digits are not entirely distinct from each other

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Scientists Go Bananas Over Baby Galaxies

Astronomers discover early galaxies shaped like curved, elongated disks 

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How Farm Animal Burps Are Fueling Global Warming

Columbia environmental scientist Catherine Ivanovich wants us to understand the impacts of the food we eat

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Could Beavers Help Save Us from Climate Disaster?

Leila Philip ’91SOA spent six years researching an underappreciated animal for her book Beaverland

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What Your Facial Features Say About You

Columbia psychologists unmask the perceptual biases that shape our impressions of one another

Sara Menker, founder and CEO of Gro Intelligence
Science & Technology

How Gro Intelligence is Fighting World Hunger with Tech

The company, founded by Sara Menker ’12BUS, seeks to optimize agricultural intelligence around the world 

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The Hidden Potential of Zombie Office Towers

Researchers make the case for converting commercial buildings into apartments

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