From America's reliance on punishment to the art of the career pivot, these five Columbia-affiliated podcasts tackle urgent ...

Water and air pose completely different challenges to animals on a number of levels.

In Pronoun Trouble, the Columbia professor and New York Times columnist tells the truth about those pesky little words.

The Columbia course “ Foundations of Science" is all about understanding the building blocks of the universe — energy, matter, cells, and genes in the context of astronomy, biology, chemistry, and ...

A new book offers a framework for unifying the two spheres.

Like Paris in the 1920s, New York in the 1960s was a center of artistic innovation. As James Hoberman, adjunct professor of film and media studies at School of the Arts, shows in his book, Everything ...

It's time again for your Columbia News Quiz. Test yourself with questions on Commencement, snake bites, and Pulitzer Prizes. Let's see how much you remember from the month of May! Take the Quiz ...

Half of all 7,000-plus human languages may disappear over the next century, and—because many have never been recorded—when they’re gone, it will be forever. Ross Perlin, a lecturer in Columbia’s ...

From birth to death, we care and are cared for by others. In Love, Money, Duty, Rachel Adams, a professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature, examines the stories we tell about ...

Grab your tissues: We asked the Class of 2025 to share their photos, memories, gratitude, and advice in anticipation of Commencement Week. As students, families, and friends gather across campus to ...

Columbia University’s research mission is central to its identity and critical to the country and world beyond our campus. In a recent series of visits at Columbia University Irving Medical Center and ...

Scientists Map Tongue’s Sweet Sensor, May Lead to New Ways to Curb Sugar Cravings Columbia scientists have mapped the 3D structure of the human sweet taste receptor, which could lead to the discovery ...