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Professor Samuel H. Sternberg was recognized alongside postdocs Yunjia Lai and Viraj Pandya.

In Professor Harris Wang’s lab, synthetic microbes are being developed into therapies for our microbiome.

Scientists at Columbia's Zuckerman Institute have linked a brain area in mice to the drive to consume sweets, fats, and salt.

New views of two colliding black holes confirm predictions made by Stephen Hawking using Albert Einstein’s theory.

The biggest research breakthroughs pioneered at Columbia seem more important with each passing year. What could be next?

The findings add to a growing body of evidence on how environmental factors may trigger harmful changes in the brain.

A liver graft from an altruistic living donor set off a chain of transplants that helped save the lives of three patients.

Findings from a new study deepen our understanding of why racially biased mistakes happen in high-stakes contexts like policing. 

In her new book—part memoir, part reportage—Marguerite Holloway tells the story of forests in the climate change era.

Researchers at Columbia Engineering have built a cancer therapy that makes bacteria and viruses work as a team.

Over decades, universities in the United States have come to rely on federal funding to support scientific and medical research.

To prevent an erosion of mental privacy, it is urgent to protect and legislate the protection of neural data in consumer tech.