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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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What This Bird Can Teach Us About Memory

The brain power of the tufted titmouse has long amazed ornithologists

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Excessive Jargon is a Sign of Insecurity, and Other Research Findings

The latest studies from Columbia

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What Are They Thinking?

For science educator Michelle Ashkin '04GSAS, teaching people about the minds of other species is more than a passion 

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These Dinosaurs Were Homebodies, and Now Scientists Know Why

Some of the earliest-known dinosaurs waited millions of years before wandering out of South America

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Black Holes Could Be Tapped for Energy, Say Physicists

Scientists offer a new take on the theory

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Bacteria Employed as "Living Hard Drives"

Columbia scientists are encoding digital information into E. coli cells

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Physicist Chien-Shiung Wu Honored with US Postage Stamp

Wu was Columbia's first tenured female physics professor and one of the most influential nuclear physicists of her generation

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Science & Technology

Self-Aware Robots? Engineers Edge Toward Elusive Goal

A new android designed at Columbia displays a “glimmer of empathy” 

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Science & Technology

How to Prepare for a "Megadisaster"

Submerged cities. Food shortages. Attacks on the electrical grid. Bioterrorism. It’s time to get ready for tomorrow’s catastrophes

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In Pursuit of Dark Matter

Columbia physicists confront one of the most confounding mysteries in science

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Scientists Decipher the Hidden Past of the "Blue-Ring Nebula"

For years, astronomers have been puzzled by a massive gas cloud that encircles a star some six thousand light-years away 

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Researchers Call for Clean-Energy Push

A new report provides a roadmap for how the US can help stave off the most catastrophic consequences of global warming

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