10
October
Scientists at Columbia’s Zuckerman Institute have contributed to solving a paradox of perception, literally upending models of how the brain constructs interpretations of the outside world.
Read More
06
October
Columbia University physicists prove a 30-year-old theory—the even-denominator fractional quantum Hall state—and establish bilayer graphene as a promising platform that could lead to quantum computation.
Read More
05
October
Ancient humans migrated out of Africa to escape a drying climate, says a new study coauthored by Peter deMenocal, a climatologist and Columbia University Dean of Science.
Read More
04
October
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.
Read More
02
October
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.
Read More
27
September
A new climate study shows that some countries in sub-Saharan Africa may be underestimating the impact of their malaria control activities, while others may be underestimating their success.
Read More
19
September
The development of a self-contained soft actuator three times stronger than natural muscle, without the need of externals, signals a breakthrough in soft robotics.
Read More
