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Materials That Can Revolutionize How Light Is Harnessed for Solar Energy

August 20, 2019

Researchers develop new design rule for generating excitons will help advance next-generation devices

Radiation in Parts of Marshall Islands Is Higher than Chernobyl

July 18, 2019

A Columbia University study suggests residents not return to several uninhabited islands until areas are thoroughly cleaned a...

Genes on the Move Help Nose Make Sense of Scents

January 11, 2019

Scientists have uncovered an ingenious mechanism that underlies the brain’s ability to distinguish different smells...

An AI for Deciphering What Animals Do All Day

May 1, 2018

Spam-filtering algorithm learns to recognize full set of behaviors in jelly-like Hydra

Bioengineered Soft Microfibers Improve T-cell Production

January 19, 2018

Columbia biomedical engineers design a new, biomaterials-based system that takes a soft approach to improving cell manufactur...

Single Molecules Can Work as Reproducible Transistors—at Room Temperature

August 16, 2017

New technique allows researchers to fabricate and measure thousands of junctions with reproducible transport characteristics...

Researchers Find Link between Food Allergies and Childhood Anxiety

June 30, 2017

Until now, little was known about the prevalence of food allergy in low socioeconomic ethnic minority populations

Oyster Shells Inspire New Method to Make Superstrong, Flexible Polymers

June 7, 2017

Columbia Engineering technique could lead to stronger composite materials used in commercial products, opening the way for th...

Hotspots Show that Vegetation Alters Climate by Up to 30%

May 31, 2017

Columbia engineers find strong feedbacks between the atmosphere and vegetation that explain up to 30% of precipitation and su...

New Microscopy Method Breaks Color Barrier of Optical Imaging

April 20, 2017

The innovative technique allows for the imaging of up to 24 biomolecular structures at a time instead of being limited by onl...

Radar Reveals Meltwater’s Year-Round Life Under Greenland Ice

January 9, 2017

“By knowing how this distribution changes seasonally, we can better understand the spatial linkage between ice and wate...

Study Says Climate Change Has Doubled Western US Forest Fires

October 13, 2016

More aridity is sending thousands of square miles up in flames

‘Dirty Blizzard’ Sent 2010 Gulf Oil Spill Pollution to Seafloor

June 2, 2016

Study finds impacts lingered much longer than expected

Wage Gap May Help Explain Why More Women Are Anxious and Depressed Than Men

January 20, 2016

Study finds that among women whose income was lower than their male counterparts, the odds of major depression were near...

Engineers Build Biologically Powered Chip

December 7, 2015

System combines biological ion channels with solid-state transistors to create a new kind of electronics