Astronomers have observed evidence of a star that whips around a black hole at a rate of nearly twice an hour. The finding may demonstrate the tightest orbital dance between a black hole and a companion star ever seen.

In a study in Science, researchers from Columbia University and and the New York Genome Center use a new coding strategy to maximize the data-storage capacity of DNA molecules.

Rui Costa, an incoming principal investigator at Columbia’s Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, asks questions that on the surface seem simple, but, upon further inspection, are extraordinarily complex.

Dr. Sebastian Will, an assistant professor in the Department of Physics at Columbia University, has been named a 2017 Sloan Research Fellow. He is the only recipient from Columbia this year.

Mechanical Engineering Professor Hod Lipson’s latest book gained attention when it came out last fall for its prediction that these autos would become a reality sooner rather than later.

Deep in the subbasement of the Jerome L. Greene Science Center there is enough computing power to perform 269 trillion mathematical calculations per second.

A new Indonesian coral-based record of surface ocean salinity shows that the location of the most significant hydroclimatic feature in the Southern Hemisphere influences a major current in the far western Pacific Ocean.