Ocean May Absorb Less CO2 as Man-Made Carbon Emissions Are Cut
Shrinkage due to COVID-19 may provide case in point. Volcanic eruptions and human-caused changes to the atmosphere strongly influence the rate at which the ocean…
Shrinkage due to COVID-19 may provide case in point. Volcanic eruptions and human-caused changes to the atmosphere strongly influence the rate at which the ocean…
Study is a wake-up call for the potential of another such outbreak, as vaccination rates plummet during the COVID-19 pandemic. An analysis of the 2018-2019…
New study uses Bayesian statistics to shed light on how extraterrestrial life might evolve beyond our planet. Humans have been wondering whether we are alone…
Climate-driven shifts disrupt fisheries, desalination plants; problems may hit other regions. A uniquely resilient organism all but unheard of in the Arabian Sea 20 years…
US Gulf Coast among regions hit with conditions not expected for decades. Most everyone knows that humid heat is harder to handle than the “dry”…
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 neutral…
Columbia researchers design biocompatible ion-driven soft transistors that can perform real-time neurologically relevant computation and a mixed-conducting particulate composite that allows creation of electronic components…
Last year was one of the worst years on record for the Greenland ice sheet, which shrunk by hundreds of billions of tons. According to…
Columbia study in mice shows how special cells in nose help the brain to distinguish between world’s near-infinite combinations of scents. Every moment of…
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…
Soot from firestorms would reduce crop production for years. The concept of nuclear winter — a years-long planetary freeze brought on by airborne soot generated…
Where tectonic plates meet, a change in angle. On March 11, 2011, a magnitude 9 earthquake struck under the seabed off Japan–the most powerful quake…
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…
Researchers use 2D materials—1/100,000 the size of a human hair—to manipulate the phase of light without changing its amplitude, at extremely low power loss; could…
New exfoliation method makes large-area atomically thin layers that can be stacked in any desired order and orientation to generate a whole new class of…
Columbia-led study in mice maps brain circuitry that enables a sex pheromone named for Jane Austen character to alter brain in mouse courtship. The infamously…
Columbia-led team harnesses two powerful technologies to identify promising targets for diagnosing and treating neurodegenerative diseases. The protein tau has long been implicated in Alzheimer’s…
Researchers discover that butterflies have specialized behaviors and wing scales to protect the living parts of their wings; nanostructures found in the wing scales could…