Forecasters are expecting another La Niña winter for the 2017-2018 season. The phenomenon can cause major changes in climate patterns that can influence water availability, food production, human health, and extreme weather events around the globe.

Joanna Steinglass, an associate professor of clinical psychiatry, and Daphna Shohamy, a psychology professor, are collaborating on a food choice study that aims to find the brain mechanisms of restrictive eating and develop more effective treatments for anorexia nervosa.

Kate Marvel, an associate research scientist at NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and the Columbia Engineering School, is among a phalanx of researchers across the University who concentrate on climate change, adaptation, and sustainability.

Concurrent with the announcement that human carbon emissions reached a new peak this year, Galen McKinley, a researcher at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, discusses the difficulties of tracking the sources and destinations of carbon dioxide.

A research team led by Kathleen McKeown, founding director of the Columbia University Data Science Institute, is designing a computer system that can process, translate and summarize documents from different languages into English.

In a new essay in Nature, Columbia neuroscientist Rafael Yuste joins more than two dozen researchers in calling for ethical guidelines to cover the evolving use of computer hardware and software to enhance or restore human capabilities.

New sensors developed at Columbia will allow mobile and wireless-device users to tap into available, unused radio-frequency channels, enabling future communication systems to flexibly share the spectrum.