In her book, ‘The Rest Is Silence,’ Joanna Stalnaker offers an intimate portrait of Enlightenment philosophers as they faced ...

This may be Booker Johnson’s first semester at Columbia Law School, but he’s already jumped right into the action, both on ...

Yes, says Columbia Law School Professor Katharina Pistor, who shows in her book how the legal underpinnings of the system ...

Columbia University's Virginia Lam Abrams, senior vice president of public affairs, and Junior M. Benjamin, director of ...

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.

Columbia News is celebrating 11 scientific discoveries that took place this year, some of which were supported by vital federal research funding. As Columbia University continues to engage with the ...

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, ...

A graduate of Columbia College took part in the dig, which found evidence that female leaders in ancient Peru had more authority than known. Early this past summer, at an archaeological site about 250 ...

The moment a person steps off the street and into a restaurant—to take just one example—the brain mentally starts a new “chapter” of the day, a change that causes a big shift in brain activity. Shifts ...

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 ...