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New Details on Why Starlings Allow ‘Immigrants’ to Join Their Communities

A new paper on superb starlings offers new data and insight on why they form social groups with non-relatives.

This Columbia Astronomy PhD Candidate Is Exploring Why Galaxies Have So Few Stars

Carr's current work explores how galaxies' atmosphere keeps them from forming too many stars.

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A New Model to Better Understand What’s Inside Colliding Black Holes

A Columbia professor, postdoc and alum are co-authors on a paper that uses new methods to analyze the waves that black holes emit when they collide.

A Researcher Shores Up Einstein’s Theory With Math

Professor Giorgi shares how she showed that black holes are stable, and how a discovery as a Columbia student charted her professional “destiny.”

Mosquitoes, Wild Pigs, and How Urban Planning Can Help Mitigate Disease

The first major professional conference that Pallavi Kache ever attended was an international symposium focused on wild pigs.

How Close Are We to Developing Pig-to-Human Organ Transplants?

“Over 100,000 people in the U.S. are currently waiting for organ transplants,” Sykes writes in the piece. “Because the human organ donor pool cannot keep pace with this demand, many patients die without receiving the life-saving transplant they need.”

10 Years On, a Cell Death Discovery Shows Promise for Treating Disease

A new journal article by Columbia professor Brent R. Stockwell marks the ten-year anniversary of the discovery of ferroptosis, a form of cell death that could help treat life-threatening illnesses like cancer.