A new media installation at Columbia renders the brain larger than life. The piece aims to capture the imagination of visitors with larger-than-life imagery and interactive stories about research conducted in the labs upstairs. Commissioned by the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute and orchestrated by creative

Peter de Menocal, Columbia Dean of Science and a climate scientist at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, discusses how climate change will impact food, water, shelter, energy, and health.

Caleb Scharf, Columbia University's Director of Astrobiology, offers some perspective on how much carbon dioxide human activity produces.

Rebecca Brachman, a neuroscientist at Columbia University, is working on a drug that would be designed to prevent, not just treat, depression and PTSD symptoms.

A surprisingly vast network of waterways cuts across Antarctica’s ice shelves. Lamont-Doherty scientists have now systematically catalogued the melt streams, revealing them to be more extensive than previously thought.

Dan Osgood, a scientist at Columbia University's International Research Institute for Climate and Society, talks about the increasing possibility that an El Niño will begin later this year.

Deep in the jagged red mountains of Oman, geologists, led by Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory's Peter Kelemen, are searching for an efficient and cheap way to remove carbon dioxide from the air and oceans — and perhaps begin to reverse climate change.