Anya Schiffrin, co-director of the Technology, Policy, and Innovation Concentration at SIPA—and lifelong Upper West Side ...

Professor Eunji Kim’s book, The American Mirage, shows how entertainment media so easily fools its viewers.

We’ve all heard the story about waking up as a cockroach—but what if a crisis turned you into a clam? After the dissolution ...

From NYC songs for a forthcoming playlist to your "only in New York" moments, we want to hear from you to help inform our ...

It's time again for your Columbia News Quiz. Test yourself with questions on amphibians, disaster preparedness, and “robot ecology.” Let's see how much you remember from the month of July ...

Unlike active galaxies that constantly pull in surrounding material, these black holes lie dormant until a star passes by.

Rasmina is one of the youngest speakers of Seke, a language from five villages in Nepal, and now a sixth, vertical village in the middle of Brooklyn. Husniya, a speaker of Wakhi from Tajikistan, has ...

A study of starlings in Africa shows that they form long-term social bonds similar to human friendships.

A little-known chapter of Columbia University history was the subject of a day-long conference on November 15. Communications scholars and historians gathered to examine the study of propaganda in the ...

Mindset and expectations, not just the external environment, shape the “table of contents” into which our brains organize the day.

Over the last two decades, the United States has supported a range of militias, rebels, and other armed groups in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria. Critics have argued that such partnerships have many ...