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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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Zamora, a researcher at the Zuckerman Institute, is studying the neural basis of attention and decision-making.

Meghan Meyer, who joined Columbia this year, is studying the brain mechanisms that allow us to understand our social world.

A Columbia Nursing postdoc has built a new AI dementia screening tool that draws on patient-nurse communication.

Columbia researchers discover that American kids use potentially toxic makeup with surprising frequency.

Alethea Harnish (CC’23) and Mark Taylor are co-teaching a course this semester, the final one for both of them at Columbia.

The findings will inform a more personalized approach to diagnosis and treatment of these cancers in minority populations.

A PhD candidate who worked for OpenAI and Apple discusses natural language processing, AI hallucinations, and deep fakes.

On April 18, Julia Gonski, a postdoc, will deliver a public talk on new research in particle physics.

The findings expand on a smaller study that assessed the development of babies born during the first wave of the pandemic.

The research supports the idea that Alzheimer's is caused by the accumulation of beta-amyloid proteins in the brain.

It will be the first ever research-to-practice center devoted to optimal health for both parents-to-be and the developing infant.

Carr's current work explores how galaxies' atmosphere keeps them from forming too many stars.