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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.


 

RECENT STORIES

New research could help communities better prioritize immediate local interventions.

Signs point towards the first observation of a supersolid, an enigmatic quantum version of a classical solid.

A new study links rising rates of breast cancer in young women to low levels of recreational physical activity in adolescence.

Canada’s record 2023 wildfire smoke is part of a broader, continent-wide trend, a new analysis shows.

The ImPLANT program leverages cross-institutional expertise across multiple bioengineering disciplines to address liver failure.

Twenty-one faculty fellows will examine what AI means for their discipline, and develop an AI education project.

Sergine Delma, a doctoral candidate in nursing, believes nurses belong everywhere, from boardrooms to AI labs to Capitol Hill.

Neutral atom arrays are a rapidly-emerging quantum technology. Columbia researchers know how to make the most powerful ones yet.

Columbia Engineers have built a robot that can learn to lip sync to speech and song.

Antiretroviral therapy availability has been the primary driver of these improvements.

The wildfires that ravaged Los Angeles a year ago were among the worst in California’s history.

Physicians at the nation’s top-rated fertility center are racing to find new treatments for infertility and miscarriages.