A team of researchers led by Columbia University’s Virginia Cornish designed an elegantly simple biosensor—it’s a dipstick—using genetically modified Saccharomyces cerevisiae, or baker’s yeast, that signals the presence of fungal pathogens responsible for diseases in humans and agriculture.

Columbia University's Steven Chillrud and Darby Jack are measuring people’s pollution intake, particularly when they bike every day close to a pollution source, like traffic.

Stan Jacobs, an oceanographer from the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, discusses his research and why large swaths of West Antarctica are hemorrhaging ice.

The Jerome L. Greene Science Center, Columbia University’s new, state-of-the-art research center in Harlem, will be devoted entirely to neuroscience.

Eric Hoel, a postdoctoral researcher in the lab of Rafael Yuste, lays out his new mathematical explanation of how consciousness and agency arise.

Sean Solomon, a professor at Columbia University and principal investigator of the MESSENGER mission to Mercury, discusses what's known about the planet, and what scientists hope to learn about it.

A new study by University of Maine and Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory scientists suggests that Earth’s rain belts could be pushed northward as the Northern Hemisphere heats up faster than the Southern Hemisphere.