Climate scientist Billy D'Andrea is investigating whether changing temperatures may have impacted the Viking's ability to farm, leading to new economic strategies.

Brian Greene, an astrophysicist at Columbia University and founder of the World Science Festival, explains the best way to enjoy the August 21, 2017 solar eclipse.

Marco Tedesco, a polar scientist at Columbia's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, explains why the Arctic is warming so fast and what that means for the rest of us.

Research by Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory scientists found evidence for increased tsunami risk in an area of Alaska previously thought to be low risk for tsunamis.

This week, Columbia University astronomers released tantalizing early results that a humongous moon the size of Neptune orbits a giant planet roughly 4,000 light-years away.

In 2006, Jeannette Wing, a computer scientist at Columbia, revisited the notion of computational thinking as a skill for everyone to learn and use. “Computational thinking is a way humans solve problems,” she wrote.

Experiments by Christine Denny at Columbia University and colleagues suggest that memories may not be wiped by Alzheimer’s disease but just become harder to access. What’s more, these memories can be reawakened by artificially activating the neurons they are stored in.