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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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Professor Andrew Blumberg is part of a team that tested AI’s upper limits by asking it to answer unsolved math problems.

A drug developed at Columbia saved the life of the first child to receive the therapy and has now been approved by the FDA.

Lasers could help neuroscientists see near-atomic-level details of brain cells more clearly.

Inside the years-long collaboration enabling faster, more precise inspection of components for everything from cars to semiconductors.

Laura Beatriz Galeano Cardozo will use her master’s in social work to help families access both mental healthcare and basic needs.

The star, in the Andromeda galaxy, collapsed and disappeared without first exploding in a supernova.

A new study shows how sensitive parts of the Greenland Ice Sheet are to a level of warming well within the projected range.

Fentanyl is often framed as a single, wide-reaching crisis, but evidence from five major U.S. cities suggests a more fragmented, complex reality.

The new MS program leverages the School’s leading expertise in AI and the unparalleled cross-disciplinary strength of the university.

Confirming a pulsar star would enable unprecedented tests of General Relativity. Such a discovery would revolutionize physics.

The health disparities that Sebastian Cota observed in his native Los Angeles led him to Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health.

Several factors are causing this seemingly paradoxical dynamic.