Thanks to Nili Ostrov and colleagues at Columbia University, baker’s yeast is about to begin yet another career. With a few tweaks, the fungus behind bread and beer could become a simple, low-cost cholera detector.

Rising temperatures due to global warming will make it harder for many aircraft around the world to take off in coming decades, says a new study coauthored by Ph.D. student Ethan Coffel and Radley Horton, a climatologist at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.

Columbia's Yaniv Erlich and Dina Zielinski encoded a silent movie, a computer operating system, a photo, a scientific paper, a computer virus, and an Amazon gift card, bringing scientists closer to turning microbes into living hard drives.

Columbia Engineering professor Ken Shepard team recently received a $15.8 million grant to support development a wireless brain chip to cure blindness and hearing loss.

A team led by Columbia's Ken Shepard plans to create a prosthetic restoring sight to those that are blind, by layering a single, flexible circuit over the brain that could communicate wirelessly with a transceiver worn on the head.

Wally Broecker, an oceanographer at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory who coined the term “global warming," discusses ways to stave off catastrophic climate change.

Climate scientist Peter de Menocal, Columbia Dean of Science and director of the Center for Climate and Life, discusses how effective climate change communication can inspire climate action and progress.