Illustration by Ryan Olbrysh for TIME (Source Images: See bottom of page) Ahead of the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States, we asked scientists, scholars, researchers, and doctors ...

We tend to view ourselves and the complex cells that build us as a distinct branch of the tree of life from the compact, seemingly featureless cells of bacteria and archaea. But we’ve found that our ...

Science has had a wild run lately. We found a planet 330 light-years away with temperatures just like Earth. A snail regrew an entire eye in less than a month. Chimps are out there making their own ...

With the 2025-26 academic year behind us, and the summer stretching ahead, Columbia News is looking back at some of the top research that our faculty have produced in recent months. Columbia ...