A new book offers a framework for unifying the two spheres.

Columbia researchers, some sporting martian headbands, gathered to celebrate the launch of the new Vera Rubin Observatory.

Congratulations to the Columbia Space Initiative (CSI) Rockets team on successfully launching a hybrid rocket powered by liquid oxygen! The successful launch capped off a yearlong effort by nearly 60 ...

The Vietnamese language provides singular insight into the dynamism of premodern Asia. As John Phan, associate professor of Vietnamese Humanities in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures ...

Columbia’s student rocketry team launched a hybrid rocket powered by liquid oxygen, a first for a student-led group.

Columbia News is celebrating 11 scientific discoveries that took place this year, some of which were supported by vital federal research funding. As Columbia University continues to engage with the ...

The fact that humans who are not related by blood help each other repeatedly over time is demonstrably true—think of the ongoing mutual support that sustains your longest-running friendships. But the ...

Prime numbers, which can only be divided by themselves and one, raise a host of interesting questions for mathematicians: At a small scale, the numbers seem to be randomly distributed, but, in ...

The cerebral cortex is the largest part of a mammal’s brain, and by some measures the most important. In humans in particular, it’s where most things happen—like perception, thinking, memory storage, ...

Anna Vannucci has a twin. Her younger sisters are also twins. Despite the shared genes and the close proximity in age (all four siblings were born within 15 months of each other), Vannucci and her ...

The moment a person steps off the street and into a restaurant—to take just one example—the brain mentally starts a new “chapter” of the day, a change that causes a big shift in brain activity. Shifts ...

What are some examples from the book of dilemmas the U.S. has faced trying to control proxy forces? Many of the militias, rebels, and tribal or community forces the U.S. has supported come with past ...