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

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.

Clockwise from top left: An African starling; Tim Friede, whose self-exposure to snake venom has helped scientists develop new antivenoms; plastic bottles floating in a body of water; and an ...

Bridges: I live in a double-room with a midrat (someone who works a “night” schedule, which I guess I should say is indistinguishable from normal hours in this land of 24-hour sun).It’s great for ...

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 ...

“As we reflect on the antisemitism revealed by their experiences, we realize that these interactions have affected the entire University community,” reads the report from the Task Force, led by ...

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 ...

The Task Force on Antisemitism at Columbia University has issued its first set of recommendations, “Report #1: Columbia University’s Rules on Demonstrations.” The report emphasizes three goals of the ...

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 ...

Sometime in the late 15th century, a scribe, likely a nun living in what is today the Netherlands, meticulously wrote out a booklet of liturgical music, also known as an antiphonary, for use at ...