February 19, 2019
New Study in Mice Reveals Unexpected Place for Learning, Memory in the Brain
Research led by Randy Bruno, a principal investigator at Columbia’s Zuckerman Institute, demonstrates that the brain’s primitive sensory region also participates in sophisticated learning.
February 19, 2019
Wallace Broecker, Prophet of Climate Change
Wallace Broecker, a Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory geochemist who initiated key research into the history of earth’s climate and humans’ influence upon it, died February 18 in New York. He was 87.
February 18, 2019
Columbia Research Teams Combine Data Science With Traditional Academic Fields to Solve Societal Problems
The Data Science Institute recently awarded grants to five research teams who will push the state-of-the-art in data science while using data science responsibly and ethically.
February 15, 2019
What’s Really Feeding Long Island’s Destructive Brown Tides?
A new study co-authored by scientists at Columbia's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory shows that phosphorus and nitrogen should be reduced to mitigate harmful algae blooms in coastal New York waters.
February 14, 2019
Columbia Researcher Designs Data Visualization of Carbon Footprints
The Carbon Catalogue makes it easy to explore consumer products’ carbon emissions and the various strategies companies are employing to reduce emissions.
February 13, 2019
On a Remote Island, a Lost Part of the World is Found
On a small volcanic island in the Indian Ocean lies a geologic enigma—a mass of pure white quartzite sandstone apparently formed on a faraway continent long ago. How did it get there?
February 12, 2019
Columbia Astrophysicist Brian Metzger Awarded Top Prize in High-Energy Astrophysics
Columbia astrophysicist Brian Metzger is a co-recipient of the 2019 Rossi Prize for his theoretical predictions of electromagnetic emission from radioactive nuclei produced in neutron star mergers.
