To counter a growing public safety concern, a professor at Columbia’s Data Science Institute is leading a research team to design an intelligent headphone system that will warn pedestrians of imminent dangers from vehicles.
Advanced alien civilizations could easily hide from our telescopes if they wanted, says Columbia astronomer David Kipping. “Our remote-sensing abilities, impressive as they may seem, could be quite basic and easily thwarted.”
Joachim Frank shares the Nobel Prize with two other scientists for inventing a new and more powerful method of capturing 3D images of biological molecules in atomic detail.