Research & Discovery

Fellowship is the highest professional distinction awarded solely to inventors.

A new implant is orders of magnitude faster and smaller than today’s state-of-the-art brain-computer interfaces.

Ryan Leone hopes to use his medical degree, which he’ll earn next spring, to treat both service members and veterans.

Columbia physicist Isidor Isaac Rabi discovered nuclear magnetic resonance in the 1930s. Today, it lets doctors look inside patients.

Sebastian Mizera just joined the physics department as an assistant professor, researching quantum field theory.

Columbia professors contributed to new research that seeks to understand an anomaly that has puzzled particle physics for decades.

In 1951, Columbia’s Charles Townes came up with the idea for the device that led to the laser. It earned him a Nobel Prize.

The Mauve satellite will study flares from stars and their impact on the habitability of nearby planets.

Current climate models overstate the rate of nitrogen fixation, a natural process that helps remove atmospheric carbon dioxide.

Psychology Professor Chujun Lin is using machine learning to identify how people judge each other, and the consequences that has.

Professor Louis Brus won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on quantum dots. Turn on your TV, and you might see some.

The technique successfully opened the blood-brain barrier, which usually hinders chemotherapies.