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Read what experts at the University have to say about the impact of recent wildfires in Canada on New York City and North America more broadly.

A new paper argues that materials like wood, bacteria, and fungi belong to a newly identified class of matter, "hydration solids."

Daly, GSAS’ 47, is the first Black woman known to have earned a PhD in chemistry in the United States.

Very few large-scale, randomized trials of the effects of vitamins or dietary supplements have been done until now.

Galia Solomonoff and her Housing Lab team researched everything from Governor Hochul’s housing compact to reimagining the shelter system.

David Hellerstein covers everything from psychoanalysis to the DSM diagnostic manual and neuroscience.

A new study shows that the 1987 treaty to protect the ozone has delayed an anticipated climate change milestone by up to 15 years.

Adolescent vapers are much more likely to use cannabis and binge drink.

The event focused on opportunities and threats to the supply chain posed by microelectronics and artificial intelligence.

The grant will bolster the Simons Observatory’s ability to gather data on black holes, gravitational waves, and exploding stars.

A new paper on superb starlings offers new data and insight on why they form social groups with non-relatives.

Columbia researchers have engineered bacteria to record their environment and then used deep learning to decode the patterns.