Biophysicists Joachim Frank of Columbia University, and his colleagues Jacques Dubochet and Richard Henderson have won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for inventing new and better ways to see molecules.

The 2017 Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded to researchers Joachim Frank of Columbia University, and his colleagues Jacques Dubochet and Richard Henderson for their work to develop cryo-electron microscopy.

Advanced alien civilizations could easily hide from our telescopes if they wanted, says Columbia astronomer David Kipping. “Our remote-sensing abilities, impressive as they may seem, could be quite basic and easily thwarted.”

Water that evaporates from existing lakes and dams in the US – excluding the Great Lakes – could provide up to 2.85 billion megawatt hours of electricity per year, according to Columbia University scientists.

In a paper published in Nature Communications, a Columbia University-led team outlined the energy production possible by harnessing electricity from water evaporating off the surface of a lake.

Oceanographer Vicki Ferrini talks about her work managing the Marine Geoscience Data System as a research scientist at Columbia's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.

Better climate data is needed to fight deadly the Zika and Dengue viruses, says Madeleine Thomson of Columbia's International Research Institute for Climate and Society.