The firing of every neuron in an animal’s body has been recorded, live. The breakthrough in imaging the nervous system of a hydra — a tiny creature related to jellyfish — as it moves has provided insights into how such simple animals control their behavior.

Below the Dead Sea, between Israel, Jordan and Palestinian territories, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory researchers have found evidence of a drought that has no precedent in human experience.

Tornado “outbreaks,” or storm systems that spin out multiple funnels in a limited time and area, are becoming more frequent in the U.S., according to a study led by Columbia's Michael Tippett.

Earlier this month in Science, researchers demonstrated a method that could store 215 petabytes, or 215 million gigabytes, in a single gram of DNA. The paper was co-authored by Columbia computer scientist Yaniv Erlich.

New research co-authored by Columbia astronomer Zoltan Haiman might have some answers to how supermassive black holes formed very quickly in the early universe.

Peter de Menocal, Columbia University Dean of Science and Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory climate scientist, discusses the fundamental principles that are used to study the climate.

According to Park Williams, a climate scientist and an assistant professor at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, the California drought was exacerbated by high temperatures.