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A Physician’s Journey Into the Minds of Coma Patients

A Columbia neurologist hopes to better identify which patients with severe brain injuries are likely to regain consciousness. 

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It could be a money and a climate saver, writes David Goldberg, a geophysicist at Columbia’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.

With new funding, Columbia’s ICAP will conduct follow up interviews with older New Yorkers on their health and wellbeing amid the ongoing pandemic.

A single type of neuron is responsible for keeping our legs in lockstep, new research shows.

Columbia Business School professor Bruce Usher explains what goes into creating an effective carbon market.

Computer scientist David Blei, with co-authors Matthew Hoffman and Francis Bach, is recognized with a Test of Time Award at NeurIPS, the world’s to

Tessa Montague, a postdoc at the Zuckerman Institute, studies the neural basis of camouflage in cuttlefish.

A new tool developed at Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health that measures how fast someone is aging could help epidemiologists understand th

The Knight First Amendment Institute proposes legal protection for certain research and news-gathering projects focused on social media platforms.

Astronomer David Kipping and his Cool Worlds Lab at Columbia find an exomoon signal in archival data, hinting at the possibility of more exomoon di

Abraham Liddell, a postdoc at Columbia’s Data Science Institute, is developing data science tools to uncover personal and community narratives amon

Columbia News spoke with three engineering experts about how to ensure that projects finish on time and on budget.