"At two percent of global GDP, we can make the carbon dioxide problem go away," says Columbia's Peter Kelemen, who is developing technology to turn carbon emissions to stone.

Rafael Yuste, a Columbia neuroscientist, and his graduate student, Christopher Dupre, recorded the activity of every neuron in a hydroid and correlated it with its behavior—a major conceptual and experimental breakthrough that might allow scientists to better understand how interactions among neurons control behavior.

Won Young Kim, a Columbia seismologist, says on the East Coast, faults move just a few millimeters a year, but eventually, it adds up. "Accumulating over the years, a small fault can break," Kim said.

As debate rumbles on about how and how much poor statistics is to blame for poor reproducibility, Nature asked influential statisticians — including Columbia statistician Andrew Gelman — to recommend one change to improve science.

Brian Greene, professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia University and co-founder of the World Science Festival, explains that there is a version of teleportation that physicists now routinely make use of.

Slavko Bogdanov, an astronomer at Columbia University, is helping unravel the murky origins of these cosmic imposters, which could lead to breakthroughs in understanding the lives and deaths of stars

Scientists at Columbia and the University of Austin at Texas say the compact sediments in an area called the Cascadia subduction zone offshore the Pacific Northwest increase the likelihood of major earthquakes and tsunamis.