Columbia’s student rocketry team launched a hybrid rocket powered by liquid oxygen, a first for a student-led group.

Like Paris in the 1920s, New York in the 1960s was a center of artistic innovation. As James Hoberman, adjunct professor of film and media studies at School of the Arts, shows in his book, Everything ...

The Columbia course “Foundations of Science" is all about understanding the building blocks of the universe — energy, matter, cells, and genes in the context of astronomy, biology, chemistry, and ...

A Nobel Prize winner challenges us to throw off the free market fundamentalists and reclaim our economy. We all have the sense that the U.S. economy—and its government—tilts toward big business, but ...

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In Language City, Ross Perlin, a linguist, takes readers on a tour of the city’s communities with endangered tongues.

Columbia faculty, students, and staff are on the cutting edge of advancements in all fields and their work is fittingly awarded and recognized. Below, find the most recent accomplishments and ...

What has gold done to people? What has it made them do? The Witwatersrand in South Africa, once home to the world’s richest goldfields, is today scattered with abandoned mines into which informal ...

The moment a person steps off the street and into a restaurant—to take just one example—the brain mentally starts a new “chapter” of the day, a change that causes a big shift in brain activity. Shifts ...

Over the last two decades, the United States has supported a range of militias, rebels, and other armed groups in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria. Critics have argued that such partnerships have many ...