Research & Discovery

This page highlights the astonishing amount of scientific discovery happening at Columbia, one of the world’s leading research universities. 

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Clockwise from top left: An iceberg stranded on a submerged rock in northwest Greenland (Karl Zinglersen); homo erectus crania from the Turkana Rift (John Rowan); a mosquito feeding (Alex Wild); a shell of thick gas and dust (red) expelled from the outer layers of a star as its core collapses into a black hole. The inner regions show a heated ball of gas (white) continuing to fall into the central black hole. (Keith Miller, Caltech/IPAC - SELab)
Columbia University Discoveries in 2025-26 to Know About

Here are some of the top scientific research findings of the past academic year.


 

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Columbia researchers led the first large scale and representative survey of postpartum health ever conducted in the U.S.

The paper says that current mainstream warming estimates are too low.
 

David Helfand explores this question and many others in The Universal Timekeepers.

Rapidly intensifying hurricanes are hard to predict. Research suggests that climate change may be making them more frequent.
 

Research suggests the tax credit may have a negative affect on mental health for some single adults without dependent children. 

Columbia Health’s Senior Vice President, Melanie Bernitz, outlines what to know about COVID-19 and flu treatment and prevention.

Matthew Connelly, who runs Columbia’s History Lab, researches the answer to that and other questions about U.S. government records.

Chemotherapy is essential for many cancer patients, but some suffer from cognitive impairment throughout treatment.

Rafael Yuste provides a unified framework for how the brain functions in “Lectures in Neuroscience.”

Neurobiologist Margaret Haney, director of Columbia’s Cannabis Research Laboratory, lays out the perils and promise of pot.

After just six weeks of shortened sleep, a study found, the cells that line our blood vessels are flooded by damaging oxidants.

Synthetic biologists at Columbia Engineering have discovered a new way to attack tumors.