Jeannette M. Wing, Avanessians Director of the Data Science Institute and Professor of Computer Science, has been appointed to a New York City task force that will develop a process for reviewing how the city uses automatic decision systems.

A forthcoming study of northern India suggests that people living in rural areas are as likely to die prematurely from the effects of poor air quality as those living in cities.

A Columbia University-led international team of researchers has developed a technique to manipulate the electrical conductivity of graphene with compression, bringing the material one step closer to being a viable semiconductor for use in today’s electronic devices.

In this video, Columbia neuroscientists Daphna Shohamy and Rafael Yuste explain how they're exploring key questions about the brain and the best ways to study human thought, behavior, and emotion.

Columbia World Projects issued its first report on the results of its inaugural forum convened to identify ways in which academia and practitioners might partner to address significant challenges facing humanity.

To help predict the future of sea level rise, scientists from Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory are studying ancient corals on the island of Barbados.

Computer scientists at Columbia Engineering have invented FontCode, a new way to embed hidden information in ordinary text by imperceptibly changing, or perturbing, the shapes of fonts in text.