New Software Can Verify Someone’s Identity by Their DNA in Minutes
Researchers at Columbia University and the New York Genome Center have developed a method to quickly and accurately identify people and cell lines from their DNA.
Q&A with Tufa Dinku | Filling in Africa’s Climate-Data Gaps
A research scientist at Columbia University’s International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Dinku is on a mission to integrate Africa’s sparse weather-station data with comprehensive satellite measurements beamed from space.
Why Do Floods Happen on Sunny Days?
Some towns and cities can get soaked even when the skies are dry. Columbia climate researchers say these so-called sunny day floods are on the rise thanks to climate change.