From America's reliance on punishment to the art of the career pivot, these five Columbia-affiliated podcasts tackle urgent ...

Water and air pose completely different challenges to animals on a number of levels.

John Phan shows how modern notions of language history are often hampered by nationalist narratives. John Phan is a language ...

In Pronoun Trouble, the Columbia professor and New York Times columnist tells the truth about those pesky little words.

Over the course of 10 years the Legacy Survey of Space and Time is expected to gather data on 20 billion galaxies and observe billions of changes that happens in the sky during that 10-year period.

June 27, 2025 Astronomers, students, and space-loving New Yorkers gathered in Columbia’s Havemeyer Hall to view some of the highest-definition photos ever taken of the cosmos. The event — co-sponsored ...

That, in turn, provides a fresh atmosphere or milieu, which itself allows for new possibilities in terms of who one may be, how you can imagine yourself, and so on. Essentially, marching, protesting, ...

Half of all 7,000-plus human languages may disappear over the next century, and—because many have never been recorded—when they’re gone, it will be forever. Ross Perlin, a lecturer in Columbia’s ...

Scientists Map Tongue’s Sweet Sensor, May Lead to New Ways to Curb Sugar Cravings Columbia scientists have mapped the 3D structure of the human sweet taste receptor, which could lead to the discovery ...

The Columbia course “ Foundations of Science" is all about understanding the building blocks of the universe — energy, matter, cells, and genes in the context of astronomy, biology, chemistry, and ...

Like Paris in the 1920s, New York in the 1960s was a center of artistic innovation. As James Hoberman, adjunct professor of film and media studies at School of the Arts, shows in his book, Everything ...

Before he taught the art of the story, Wally Suphap (CC’01, LAW’04, SOA’23) had to live out the twists and turns of a narrative arc in his own life and career. Born in Bangkok, raised in L.A., and ...