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.

It's time again for your Columbia News Quiz. Test yourself with questions on Star Wars, Manhattanville Community Day, and the Columbia Space Initiative. Let's see how much you remember from the month ...

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

Ultimately, the researchers found that helpers preferentially aided relatives, but also frequently and consistently helped specific non-relative birds, even when relatives were available to help.

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 ...

As the start of the 2024-2025 academic year approaches, Columbia’s Task Force on Antisemitism has released its second set of recommendations. Grounded in extensive meetings with students, the report ...

In a recent paper, Jesús E. Pérez-Ortega, a postdoc in the lab of Professor Rafael Yuste, examined how neurons in mouse brains respond to visual stimuli, and found that it's just as important for some ...

There’s a hot new BEC in town that has nothing to do with bacon, egg, and cheese. You won’t find it at your local bodega, but in the coldest place in New York: the lab of Columbia physicist Sebastian ...

Optimism abounds in Phan Thi Kim Phuc, a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador and peace activist. Her optimism is a miracle. In 1972, the world was shocked by a photograph of a girl running, arms outstretched, ...

More than 40 percent of the world’s estimated 7,100+ languages are in danger of disappearing by the end of this century. As with the decline of biodiversity, language loss has been attributed to ...

After consultations with the Executive Committee of the University Senate, a new Interim University Policy for Safe Demonstrations is now in place in conjunction with the current special events policy ...