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Water and air pose completely different challenges to animals on a number of levels.
From America's reliance on punishment to the art of the career pivot, these five Columbia-affiliated podcasts tackle urgent questions shaping culture, society, and identity today.
In Pronoun Trouble, the Columbia professor and New York Times columnist tells the truth about those pesky little words.
More than 100 astronomers, astronomy students, and curiosity-filled lovers of the night skies gathered on Monday in Columbia’s Havemeyer Hall to celebrate the release of images from the Vera C. Rubin ...
Among the major questions in astrophysics is the origins of the heavy elements in our Universe that make up the periodic table. The lightest elements, hydrogen and helium, were formed mainly in the ...
Fiction, nonfiction, memoir, history, sports, essays—we’ve got you covered with this diverse list of 11 books.
Jesús E. Pérez-Ortega is interested in technology that improves our understanding of the brain and treats neurological conditions.
There’s a hot new BEC in town that has nothing to do with bacon, egg, and cheese. You won’t find it at your local bodega, but in the coldest place in New York: the lab of Columbia physicist Sebastian ...
Optimism abounds in Phan Thi Kim Phuc, a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador and peace activist. Her optimism is a miracle. In 1972, the world was shocked by a photograph of a girl running, arms outstretched, ...
This Women's History Month, we're looking back at the Columbia women whose accomplishments are so iconic they have been enshrined in U.S. commemorative postage stamps, which honor events, activities, ...