April 1, 2020
Columbia to Build Upgrades for Large Hadron Collider, the World’s Largest Atom Smasher
The National Science Foundation awards $75 million to a Columbia-led team to support major improvements necessary to advance high-energy physics.
March 27, 2020
Ozone Treaty Stopped Jet-Stream Drift in Southern Hemisphere
Researchers long ago predicted that the 1987 Montreal Protocol, banning ozone-depleting gases, would reverse a worrisome trend in Southern Hemisphere winds. A new study shows they were right.
March 27, 2020
A Double-edged Sword: Scientists Identify Gene That Initially Slows, Then Later Accelerates, Disease Progression of ALS in Mice
The Columbia study underscores the complexities of deadly neurodegenerative disease and offers promising strategies to target disease’s underlying genetic mechanisms.
March 26, 2020
What Can We Learn From Covid-19 to Help With Climate Change?
As we confront the COVID-19 crisis, can we learn anything that could help us as a country deal with another crisis that is slowly but inexorably coming down the pike—climate change?
March 26, 2020
Columbia Creates New Center to Combat Opioid Epidemic
Data Science Institute researchers will be an integral part of a new center that unites experts from across Columbia University to combat the opioid crisis.
March 25, 2020
The Shutdown Is Clearing New York’s Air. Don’t Cheer Too Hard.
Columbia researchers are measuring severe drops in pollutants at the ground level, but warn that the benefits will be short-lived unless we take away some longer-term lessons.
March 23, 2020
Data for Good: Rafael Yuste on the Ethical Development of Neurotechnology
Columbia professor of biological sciences and Data Science Institute member Rafael Yuste founded the NeuroRights Initiative, which advocates for the responsible and ethical development of neurotechnology.
