Increases in deer and tick populations in the regions around New York or any other city can lead to an increased number of ...

Paul Thomas Chamberlin’s book, Scorched Earth, recasts the conflict as a brutal struggle for survival among declining and ...

A new study indicates that forests, prairies, and other natural areas around the globe acquire less of the vital chemical element nitrogen than previously estimated. The findings have climate ...

Lalitha Vasudevan directs MASCLab, a hub for creating, curating, and supporting multimodal and digital scholarship.

This page highlights the astonishing amount of scientific discovery happening at Columbia, one of the world’s leading research universities.

As the whole apparatus of apartheid became less viable—thanks to organized resistance and pressure from labor movements, as well as international support for that resistance—and as gold began to ...

A study sheds light on how networks in the brain detect new information, offering insight into disorders like schizophrenia.

Mindset and expectations, not just the external environment, shape the “table of contents” into which our brains organize the day.

As the start of the 2024-2025 academic year approaches, Columbia’s Task Force on Antisemitism has released its second set of recommendations. Grounded in extensive meetings with students, the report ...

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, ...