John McWhorter on being “strange” and reconstructing Fats Waller’s long-forgotten Broadway musical
New York Times columnist, best-selling author, linguist and Columbia University professor John McWhorter doesn’t shy away from controversy…
Updated trends in the global prevalence and burden of mental disorders, 1990-2023: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023
Declaration of interests Q E S Adnani reports grants or contracts as a recipient of the study under…
Earth’s Upper Atmosphere Is Cooling Fast and Scientists Finally Know Why
Earth’s surface is warming, but the upper atmosphere has been cooling for decades, and scientists now understand why.…
First Real-Time Brain-Controlled Hearing Device
Summary: Researchers provided the first direct evidence that brain-controlled technology can help listeners isolate a single voice in…
Earth’s Crust Is Tearing Open in Africa, and It Could Form a New Ocean
Scientists have found that the crust beneath East Africa’s Turkana Rift is thinning to a critical point, signaling…
Financial Decline Accelerates Brain Aging
Summary: A new study reveals a direct link between poor financial well-being and accelerated cognitive decline in middle-aged…
Newly discovered ripples in spacetime put Einstein’s general relativity to the test
When black holes collide, the crash generates ripples in the fabric of spacetime—gravitational waves. These distortions travel far…
Columbia student released after being detained by DHS agents. Controversy swirls over her detention.
A Columbia University student was detained by federal agents Thursday morning at one of its residential buildings. The…
Dr. John Goodson, physician, poet, and primary care advocate, dies at 76
Of one patient, he wrote about the startling way death suddenly arrives: “And then you vanished / only…
In a first, US scientists turn exciton superfluids into supersolids
In a first, scientists at Columbia University in New York and the University of Texas in Austin turned…
Trump says seeking US$1 billion from Harvard in ‘damages’
US President Donald Trump said on Monday his administration would seek US$1 billion in damages from Harvard University…
Physicists Outline Technique to Scale Neutral-Atom Quantum Systems Beyond 100,000 Qubits
Insider Brief Researchers at Columbia University report a metasurface-based optical tweezer platform that provides a realistic path to…