28
May
Intensifying river floods caused by global warming may hamper national economies worldwide, and effects might propagate through global trade and supply networks, a new study says.
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28
May
A new study led by Pierre Gentine, associate professor of earth and environmental engineering at Columbia Engineering, shows that forest height and age directly impact the carbon cycle in the Amazon.
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24
May
The Academy recognizes decades of work to map complex pathways that connect the eye to the brain — research that could inform treatments of developmental and vision disorders.
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23
May
The team is the first to directly image propagation and dynamics of graphene plasmons at very low temperatures; their findings could impact optical communications and signal processing.
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23
May
“It’s a totally new way of studying earthquakes,” said study coauthor Benjamin Holtzman. “These machine learning methods pick out very subtle differences in the raw data that we’re just learning to interpret.”
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22
May
A new study coauthored by Columbia climate scientist Pratigya Polissar has uncovered when and why the native vegetation that today dominates much of Australia first expanded across the continent.
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21
May
The generous gift of a VersaLab from Quantum Design will enable the university to significantly advance teaching and learning opportunities in materials science.
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