“The two islands that surround this new land mass have some pretty tough substrate, so there’s something happening to help make this solidify and stay in place, chemically,” said co-author Vicki Ferrini, a geologist at Columbia’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.
A project led by Columbia researcher Scott LaPoint to track the impact of climate change on migrating animals has revealed that adult golden eagles are unable to shift the timing of their migration.
The researchers are the first to observe the electronic structure of graphene in an engineered semiconductor; their finding could lead to progress in advanced optoelectronics and data processing.