Stacking monolayer and bilayer graphene sheets with a twist leads to new collective electronic states, including a rare form of magnetism. Credit: Columbia University Twisting…
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A living foraminifera, a type of marine plankton, that researchers grew in laboratory culture. To reconstruct past climate, fossilized specimens are collected from deep sea…
A 23-million-year-old leaf preserved in a onetime New Zealand lake bed, key to past atmospheric conditions. One can see veins, glands along the teeth, and…
Cryo-EM reconstructions show how two different antibodies (blue) bind to the spike protein of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Credit: David Ho / Columbia University Irving Medical…
Schematic of a laser-illuminated nano-optical probe investigating a strained nanobubble of tungsten diselenide (WSe2; green and yellow balls), a 2-dimensional semiconductor. The single layer of…
AI has become the buzzword of the world, and an integral part of almost every company’s digital transformation agenda. AI users have become producers of…
A new study uses Bayesian statistics to weigh the likelihood of life and intelligence beyond our solar system. Credit: Amanda Carden New study uses Bayesian…
A new study shows that extreme, sometimes potentially fatal, mixtures of heat and humidity are emerging across the globe. This map shows documented instances, with…
[embedded content]2-photon calcium imaging (5x speed) of the activity responses of neurons in hippocampal area CA1 of a mouse as it learns to associate a…
Fast, Flexible, Powerful Bioelectronic Devices Are Two Steps Closer With Columbia’s Soft Transistors
Conformable enhancement-mode, internal ion-gated organic electrochemical transistor (e-IGT) A) Micrograph displaying the top view of an e-IGT (top). Scale bar, 5 μm. Ultra-flexible, ultra-thin e-IGT…
Marco Tedesco (left) and a colleague measure reflectance on the Greenland ice sheet during a 2018 expedition. Credit: Kevin Krajick/Earth Institute Last year was one…
Ride-hailing trips increase the number of crashes for motorists and pedestrians at pick-up and drop-off locations, reports a new study from researchers at the Columbia…
Japan’s risk of giant tsunamis may have grown when the angle of a down-going slab of ocean crust declined. In this image the ocean crust…
Undetected cases, many of which were likely not severely symptomatic, were largely responsible for the rapid spread of the COVID-19 outbreak in China, according to…
Illustration of an integrated micro-ring resonator based low loss optical cavity with semiconductor 2D material on top of the waveguide. Credit: Ipshita Datta and Aseema…
This image shows atomically thin semiconductor wafers (MoS2 monolayers, lateral dimension of each panel ~ 1cm, wafer thickness of only ~0.7 nm). We obtained these…
Infrared photographs of butterflies, where brightness correlates with the capability of radiative cooling. Credit: Nanfang Yu and Cheng-Chia Tsai/Columbia Engineering Researchers discover that butterflies have…
A new study shows that half of all Arctic warming and corresponding sea-loss during the late 20th century was caused by ozone-depleting substances. Here, icebergs…
The discovery of multi-messenger nanoprobes allows scientists to simultaneously probe multiple properties of quantum materials at nanometer-scale spatial resolutions. Credit: Ella Maru Studio Bringing a…
Serotonergic Modulation of Walking in Drosophila. Credit: Current Biology DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.10.042 Why do we freeze when startled? New study in flies points to serotonin. Columbia…