Robin Bell, a polar scientist at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and president-elect of the American Geophysical Union, discusses her research, climate change, and STEM with The New York Times.
Neuroscientists at Columbia University Irving Medical Center and the University of California, San Francisco Columbia have found, in mice, that certain cells fire when the animal is anxious, triggering anxiety-related behaviors.
A team led by Columbia Engineering’s Yuan Yang has developed a Li-ion battery shaped like the human spine that allows remarkable flexibility, high energy density, and stable voltage no matter how it is flexed or twisted.
Yuang Yang, an assistant professor of material science and engineering at Columbia University, came up with a design for an extremely flexible and energy-dense lithium-ion battery that could finally make portable chargers a practical reality.