Columbia Engineering assistant professor Daniel Esposito and his team have created a floating device capable of producing hydrogen gas (H2) for fuel using sunlight and seawater, minus the CO2 emissions usually produced by this process.

Wish as we may, according to Brian Greene, a professor of physics at Columbia University who specializes in theoretical physics, quantum entanglement doesn’t exactly fit the bill of "The Force."

Radley Horton and Park Williams, climate scientists at Columbia's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, discuss the specific conditions that have driven this winter’s wildfires in California.

"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.

Although similar islands usually vanish within months, images from NASA revealed that this landmass in Tonga may last for up to 30 years; Vicki Ferrini, a scientist at Columbia's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, contributed to the discovery.

Researchers at Columbia University, along with colleagues at the New York Genome Center, have created software which can identify someone’s DNA in minutes. This has implications for crime scene investigation, emergency management, and scientific research.