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Robot Sailboats Will Spend Five Years Measuring Carbon in the Southern Ocean

A new project will deploy a fleet of autonomous vehicles to measure carbon exchange in remote waters.

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How the Body's Own Immune System Can Attack the Brain

Scientific American
September 26, 2026

The 92-Year-Old Mathematician and the Teenage Apprentice

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September 6, 2026

How Scientists Unraveled the Cause of the Devastating Flood in Tibet and Nepal

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August 28, 2026

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When Lyme Disease Doesn't Go Away

It's tick season. Here's what Brian Fallon, the director of Columbia’s Lyme & Tick-borne Diseases Research Center, has to say about combating chronic Lyme disease.

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School of Social Work Awarded $86 Million to Reduce Opioid Deaths in New York

National Institute on Drug Abuse grant will bring the School of Social Work together with partner universities to work in 15 counties across New York State.

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NASA NuSTAR Telescope Built at Nevis

It’s an unlikely place to build a NASA telescope: a leafy estate in Irvington, N.Y., that once belonged to the son of Alexander Hamilton. Inside a hangar-like building on the site, which is home to Columbia’s Nevis Laboratories for experimental physics, Charles Hailey assembled mirrors for NuSTAR, the most sensitive X-ray telescope ever constructed. Its mission: to conduct a census of black holes, map exploding stars known as supernovae and observe other dynamic events in space.