Meet the Zuckerman Institute scientists leveraging technological advances to reveal aspects of Alzheimer’s disease long hidden from view, and discover how Columbia is committed to untangling the disease.

Over the last decade, IRI’s financial instruments team has been researching, designing and refining weather index insurance in their work in a dozen countries across Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean.

A team of Columbia researchers, led by Nobel laureate Eric R. Kandel, MD, reveal new details of how a naturally occurring hormone can boost memory in aging mice, laying the groundwork for staving off this form of memory loss in people.

Columbia engineers lead the first global analysis to characterize the responses of storm runoff extremes to climate and human-induced changes. The study sheds new light on rising magnitude of extreme flash floods.

A panel discussion and book launch event held at Columbia’s Mailman School for Public Health outline how better communication can help to bridge the research divide between climate and health.

“Pixel Approximate Entropy” quantifies visual complexity by providing a score that automatically identifies difficult charts. The technique could help users in emergency settings to read data at a glance and make better decisions faster.

Brian Metzger, an associate professor of astrophysics, has won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize for pioneering predictions of the electromagnetic signal from a neutron star merger, and for leadership in the emerging field of multi-messenger astronomy.