New research from Columbia astronomer Luca Comisso finds that, in extreme astrophysical environments, gravity can, at least in theory, transform into matter.

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About 18 miles north of @Columbia's bustling Morningside campus in Manhattan, lies another University campus, where deer graze just outside of state-of-the-art labs, while scientists explore pressing questions in physics, engineering, and medicine.

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NOVAKnee, a “living knee” implant by Columbia Researchers, has been named to the 2026 TIME Best Inventions List.
The project is co-led by @ColumbiaBME Clark Hung and Nadeen Chahine, with @mumedicine collaborators led by James L. Cook.

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A new study found that when microplastics contact water, their surfaces can become chemically reactive; it could be how they get us sick.

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🧬 New research in Nucleic Acids Research from IICD members and collaborators introduces Songbird, a computational tool that identifies copy number changes and estimates ploidy in single cells—helping researchers understand cancer evolution.

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RT @Columbia: 👏 Congratulations to Michael Woodford, the John Bates Clark Professor of Political Economy at Columbia University, for receiv…

Governor Kathy Hochul recently declared a State Disaster Emergency amid a surge in measles cases across rural and upstate communities. Columbia infectious disease specialist Dr. Irene Frantzis explains how measles affects the body, causing serious, sometimes fatal, complications. columbiamed.link/4y8DkRh

The current El Niño will break all sea-surface temperature records to date and will very likely deliver unprecedented weather-related impacts around the world. Learn more from our experts via State of the Planet: news.climate.columbia.edu/2026/10/01/el-…

This year's prestigious @WolfPrize_ in Medicine goes to our very own @Columbia Charles Zuker: "For revolutionizing our understanding of taste," as the citation reads, "the last of our senses to be elucidated.”

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Mark Ross-Lonergan, an experimental neutrino physicist, first arrived at Columbia as a postdoctoral researcher in 2017. Now, he's back as a professor.

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🔬 New research from IICD and @ColumbiaMed!

Published in @NatureImmunol, the study tracks T-cell clones across time and tissue to reveal how they evolve and contribute to damage in graft-versus-host disease (GVHD). #CancerResearch #Immunology

Read more: cancerdynamics.columbia.edu/news/tracking-…

According to a new study by @ColumbiaMSPH researchers and the University of Colorado Anschutz, people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in the U.S. face a 14-year deficit in life expectancy. The study provides one of the first large-scale estimates of age-specific death rates and life expectancy among people with ASD. columbiamed.link/4hEAVZr

Professor Duncan Menge is the new chair of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology. In his spare time, he plays guitar in the department band.

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Natalie Fardian-Melamed was named a Blavatnik Regional Award for Young Scientists laureate. Samuel H. Sternberg was named a finalist for the Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists.

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Four operating rooms. A robotic donor surgery. One liver that would be divided to save three adults.

This single day combined:

A robotic living-donor surgery (a healthy donor donates part of their liver)
A domino transplant (a chain of organ donations between multiple patients)
t (a procedure where a donor liver is split into two parts, with each part transplanted into a separate recipient)
All in adults, all at once.

It stretched across 15 hours, four rooms, and more than 30 team members. And in the end, three patients received the chance at renewed life.

Here’s how it unfolded, step by step, told in sequence with just enough anatomy to bring you into a surgical mindset. columbiasurgery.org/news/one-gift-…

Columbia research scientist Jennifer Sokoloski is helping scientists get more from the new @VRubinObs.

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Columbia News spoke with Professor Göran Ekström about a career spent using seismology to study landslides, floods, and other seismic phenomena around the world.

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Funded by the National Science Foundation (@NSF), the National Synthesis Center for Organismal Resilience will leverage real-world data and innovative AI to improve understanding of how plants and animals build resilience in dynamic environments.

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🗺️ Explore pioneering @LamontEarth geologist and cartographer Marie Tharp's groundbreaking 1977 World Ocean Floor map and discover how it transformed our understanding of the Earth. #MarieTharp Via State of the Planet: news.climate.columbia.edu/2026/07/31/int…

The FDA just approved daraxonrasib, a new treatment that significantly extends the lives of patients with advanced pancreatic cancer.

Learn about how @columbiacancer researchers Drs. Gulam Manji and Kenneth Olive contributed to this breakthrough: cancer.columbia.edu/news/columbia-…