Eric Kandel and Daphna Shohamy, neuroscientists at Columbia’s Zuckerman Institute, are investigating whether abstract art elicits increased activity in the hippocampus, allowing us to focus inward and access our most personal thoughts and feelings.
Using the photo-sharing site Instagram as a test case, Columbia researchers found that recommendation algorithms influence social status by amplifying network disparities.
Marco Tedesco and Robin Bell, polar scientists at Columbia’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory polar scientists, provide a primer for non-scientists on the study of climate change as it relates to sea level changes.