In September, the Columbia Nano Initiative opened a state of the art new clean room at the Schapiro Center for Engineering and Physical Science Research, which will support projects in physics, electrical engineering, applied physics, mechanical engineering, and chemistry.

A team of scientists has found new evidence to bolster the idea that the Permian Extinction, which occurred 252 million years ago, was caused by massive volcanic eruptions in what is now Siberia.

A research team from Columbia University received a National Science Foundation grant to assist scientists at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), the instrument that won a Nobel Prize for detecting gravitational waves.

On October 7, Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory will open its doors to the rest of the world in a tradition that spans more than five decades.

Scientists associated with the Columbia University Initiative on Extreme Weather and Climate are investigating how future storms might impact the heavily-populated coastal city of Mumbai.

To counter a growing public safety concern, a professor at Columbia's Data Science Institute is leading a research team to design an intelligent headphone system that will warn pedestrians of imminent dangers from vehicles.

Joachim Frank shares the Nobel Prize with two other scientists for inventing a new and more powerful method of capturing 3D images of biological molecules in atomic detail.