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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

The Knight First Amendment Institute looks at how the law does (or should) shape the regulation of lies, disinformation, and misinformation in the digital age.

The award is the fourth Clinical and Translational Science Award for Columbia, totaling over $200 million since 2006.

What we've learned can help us foster mental health resilience among children and young adults in communities most directly hit by COVID-19.

What's a neutrino and how do you detect one? Columbia physicist and neutrino hunter Georgia Karagiorgi explains.

Beat the summer heat with some cool podcasts from around our community. 

Researchers from Columbia's Climate School are using data collection, community collaboration, and startups to reduce the negative health effects of pollution in India, Indonesia, and the continent of Africa.

Columbia Engineering researchers develop computer vision algorithm for predicting human interactions and body language in video, a capability that could have applications for assistive technology, autonomous vehicles, and collaborative robots.

Climate change may be loading the dice for a difficult summer, according to researchers at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.

On June 21, Columbia University Libraries hosted a ribbon-cutting to symbolize the full reopening of library spaces. Here's what you can expect this fall. 

A new study by Columbia's Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons finds that stress can accelerate graying, but hair color can be restored if stress is eliminated.

To control the COVID-19 pandemic, a majority of the world needs to be vaccinated. A group of researchers from Columbia University is working with local governments in African countries to help their communities get the vaccines they need.

Duvall's research focuses on the neural and molecular pathways that regulate biting and mating in mosquitoes.