This page highlights the astonishing amount of scientific discovery happening at Columbia, one of the world’s leading research universities.
Teaming Up to Transform Pediatric Brain Cancer Treatment
An engineer and a physician are working together on a new approach using focused ultrasound to treat dozens of brain diseases.
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Theoretical chemist David Reichman, recently elected to the National Academy of Sciences, is making sense of experimental findings.
Graduate student Aaron Holman talks about trapping single atoms and putting them to work in emerging quantum technologies
The effectiveness of policies aimed at restricting youth social media use remains far from fully understood.
Columbia’s student rocketry team launched a hybrid rocket powered by liquid oxygen, a first for a student-led group.
A Climate School marine geophysicist shares her perspectives on marine research, and what brings her hope for the field.
Columbia researchers are using AI to spot early signs of schizophrenia in Medicaid data—pushing psychiatry toward faster, more accurate, and more e
11 Columbia-led research breakthroughs you should know in 2025.
The method provides a powerful tool for predicting risks associated with aging, like chronic illness, disability, and mortality.
The system addresses a problem that has slowed the development of gene therapies.
The event brought high school teams to Columbia for a full-day robotics experience.
Alexis Abramson’s first love was the study of heat—how to use it, conserve it and eliminate waste.
When is learning possible? For Moïse Blanchard, a postdoc at the Data Science Institute, the question is mathematical.
