New York, NY (May 8, 2023) – The 107th annual Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism, Letters, Drama and Music were announced today. The winners in each category, along with the names of the finalists in the competition, follow: A. PRIZES IN JOURNALISM For a distinguished example of meritorious public service by a newspaper, magazine or news […]
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Regrown tropical forests may have short lifespans, says new study
Preventing the re-clearing of second-growth forests is a major challenge for restoration efforts in tropical regions, according to a new study led by researchers from Columbia University, University of São Paulo and the Federal University of ABC in Brazil. The study found that a third of regenerating areas in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest were cut down again, […]
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Columbia physicians give first comprehensive review of COVID-19’s effects outside the lung
NEW YORK, NY, July 13, 2020 – After only a few days caring for critically ill COVID-19 patients at the start of the outbreak in New York City, Aakriti Gupta, MD, realized that this was much more than a respiratory disease. “I was on the front lines right from the beginning. I observed that patients […]
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New Study Estimates the Odds of Life and Intelligence Emerging Beyond Our Planet
May 19, 2020 – Humans have been wondering whether we are alone in the universe since antiquity. We know from the geological record that life started relatively quickly, as soon our planet’s environment was stable enough to support it. We also know that the first multicellular organism, which evolved to produce today’s technological civilization, took […]
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Radiation in Parts of Marshall Islands is Higher Than Chernobyl
July 17, 2019 – Radiation levels in some regions of the Marshall Islands in the central Pacific, where the United States conducted nuclear tests during the Cold War, are far higher than in areas affected by the Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear disasters, according to new research from Columbia University. Three studies published July 15 in Proceedings […]