The B-list novels of Mary Shelley; I’m in the early stages of drafting a new book about Mary Shelley, so I have to read ...

2025 marks a century of quantum science research. Learn about Columbia's central role in that history.

A Columbia scientist’s lab revolutionized digital photography with a new kind of imaging now used in more than a billion ...

Elizabeth Leake, the new chair of the department, looks both behind and ahead.

From science to engineering, writing to social sciences, here are the Columbians who received awards recently.

In Three or More Is a Riot, he takes readers to the front lines of conflict to uncover the meaning of it all.

Clémence Boulouque shows how this theory was built on older Jewish ideas, which offered the possibility of emancipation to ...

Columbia News is celebrating 11 scientific discoveries that took place this year, some of which were supported by vital federal research funding. As Columbia University continues to engage with the ...

Among the major questions in astrophysics is the origins of the heavy elements in our Universe that make up the periodic table. The lightest elements, hydrogen and helium, were formed mainly in the ...

The moment a person steps off the street and into a restaurant—to take just one example—the brain mentally starts a new “chapter” of the day, a change that causes a big shift in brain activity. Shifts ...