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Study in Mice Identifies a Type of Cell That Promotes Parental Care

The newly-discovered adrenal cell produces a hormone that is also present in humans.

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A ban on heating oil #6 has been effective in reducing air pollution, says a new study that’s the first to provide a framework for evaluating the i

A study sheds light on how the brain remembers key information which might one day help treat memory disorders.

Hearing aids are getting better, and Americans will soon be able to buy them without a prescription.

Researchers at Columbia Engineering have found a way, using 2D materials, to build superconducting qubits that are a fraction of the size of previo

Researchers at the Zuckerman Institute find unexpected connections among brain cells that record memories of places in mice.

A new technique developed at Columbia Engineering combines quantum mechanics and machine learning to efficiently simulate temperature-dependent pro

What will it take to defeat AIDS in the United States by 2030? Drs.

The rate of cervical cancer among women in low-income, mostly minority neighborhoods in New York City is nearly two times higher than the rate amon

Columbia Engineering professor Henning Schulzrinne unpacks President Biden’s $1 trillion infrastructure bill and its promise to expand broadband ac

Aerosol scientist Faye McNeill explains air purifier basics, why masks really do work, and how chemistry experiments and computer simulations in th

Her background as an archivist enables her to see the full scope of the stewardship of rare collections.

In search of the mysterious transition between metallic and insulating states of matter, Columbia researchers find signatures of quantum criticalit