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Places for prayer and meditation exist in shared communal spaces like hospitals and airports all over the world. At a ...

New chair Oliver Simons outlines his plans and discusses why the study of languages and literature is key today.

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A Columbia scientist’s lab revolutionized digital photography with a new kind of imaging now used in more than a billion ...

Elizabeth Leake, the new chair of the department, looks both behind and ahead.

In Three or More Is a Riot, he takes readers to the front lines of conflict to uncover the meaning of it all.

What has gold done to people? What has it made them do? The Witwatersrand in South Africa, once home to the world’s richest goldfields, is today scattered with abandoned mines into which informal ...

The cerebral cortex is the largest part of a mammal’s brain, and by some measures the most important. In humans in particular, it’s where most things happen—like perception, thinking, memory storage, ...