A new method for mapping #brain slices in 3-D could be extremely helpful in mapping neural circuits, says Columbia University neuroscientist Rafael Yuste.

Reseearch by Ning Qian, a neuroscientist at Columbia University’s Zuckerman Institute, and his colleagues reveals it's easier for our brains to handle categories than minute details.

At Columbia University — New York's top-contributing institute to the Nature Index — researchers recently developed a method for storing up to 215 petabytes of information in a gram of DNA.

"The completeness of this picture from the beginning to the end is unprecedented," said Columbia University physics professor Szabolcs Marka. "There are many, many extraordinary discoveries within the discovery."

Brian Metzger, an astrophysicist at Columbia University, comments on the discovery of a neutron-star collision which produced a radioactive "kilonova" that forged hundreds of Earths' worth of platinum, gold, silver, and other atoms.

Zsuzsa Marka, a Columbia astrophysicist, and Brian David Metzger, a theorist at Columbia, describe the spectacular sights and sounds of a pair of dead stars colliding in a kilonova explosion.

“The most straight-forward climate-change connection is through warming. As long as there is fuel to burn, drying the fuel out increases fire danger, and fuels dry out faster and more when it’s warmer,” Park Williams, a bioclimatologist at Columbia University.