November 12, 2017

How Warmer Winters Affect Our Planet

Marco Tedesco of Columbia University discusses changes in Earth's polar regions and why a difference of one or two degrees in temperature can thaw a world of ice.
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November 10, 2017

Could Software Stop School Shootings?

Desmond Patton, director of Columbia University’s SAFE Lab, explains how language on social media changes as a teen gets closer to becoming violent — and how the findings are used to keep kids safe.
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November 10, 2017

Can Carbon-Dioxide Removal Save the World?

Carbon-dioxide removal — an idea pioneered at Columbia by physicist Klaus Lackner — could be a trillion-dollar enterprise, because it not only slows the rise in CO2 but reverses it.
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November 8, 2017

Four Ethical Priorities for Neurotechnologies and AI

Artificial intelligence and brain–computer interfaces must respect and preserve people's privacy, identity, agency, and equality, say Rafael Yuste, a Columbia professor of biological sciences and neuroscience, and his colleagues.
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November 7, 2017

Breathing Fire

Park Williams, a Columbia climate scientist, says there's a clear connection between the nearly 2 degrees Fahrenheit overall increase in global temperature since the late 1800s and the severity of recent wildfires.
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November 6, 2017

Astronomers Use Shadowy Alien Worlds to Peer Inside Stars

Columbia astronomers Emily Sandford and David Kipping have found a way to measure the density of distant stars by analyzing the speed and location of planets in their orbit.
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November 6, 2017

The Climate Risks We Face

An op-ed co-authored by Columbia climate scientist Radley Horton, who helped write the “Climate Science Special Report: Fourth National Climate Assessment, Volume I,” released on Friday.
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