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Linda Sohl Reconstructs Climate Models to Help the Search for Alien Life

Linda Sohl Reconstructs Climate Models to Help the Search for Alien Life

November 14, 2019
climate response   fundamental science  

Sohl, an earth system scientist at Columbia University’s Center for Climate Systems Research and the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, studies Earth’s climate past, so that we can better predict its future.

Zsuzsa Marka Helps Develop an Astrophysics Institute to Harness Cosmic Data

Zsuzsa Marka Helps Develop an Astrophysics Institute to Harness Cosmic Data

October 24, 2019
data science   fundamental science  

Columbia University is a partnering organization on a $2.8 million National Science Foundation grant to develop the concept for a Scalable Cyberinfrastructure Institute for Multi-Messenger Astrophysics.

Columbia Team Receives $2M for Quantum Research Aimed at Stabilizing Atomic Excitation

Columbia Team Receives $2M for Quantum Research Aimed at Stabilizing Atomic Excitation

October 8, 2019
fundamental science   physics  

The research team will execute a project aimed at extending the excited state lifetime of atoms, allowing for new technological innovation and advancing the field of quantum science.

Walter Pitman: Discovered a Key to Plate Tectonics

Walter Pitman: Discovered a Key to Plate Tectonics

October 2, 2019
earth science   fundamental science   Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory  

Walter Pitman, a seagoing geophysicist who spent his entire career at Columbia University and spotted a crucial piece of a huge puzzle that revolutionized the earth sciences, has died.

Tabby’s Star: Exomoon’s Slow Annihilation Could Explain the Dimming of the Most Mysterious Star in the Universe

Tabby’s Star: Exomoon’s Slow Annihilation Could Explain the Dimming of the Most Mysterious Star in the Universe

September 16, 2019
astronomy   fundamental science  

Chunks of an exomoon’s dusty outer layers of ice, gas, and carbonaceous rock may be accumulating in a disk surrounding Tabby’s Star, blocking the star’s light and making it appear to gradually fade.

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