Given their adaptation to cold climes and their advanced, albeit under-appreciated, skills, how were Neanderthals beaten out by their human counterparts? The answer lies in a combination of cultu...
https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2016/05/08/the-2-million-year-melee-neanderthals-vs-humans/
Is it an album cover for a 1980s hair band, or a thin section micrograph of precious minerals? A model of ice streams in glacial lakes, or a 3D laser light show from a dance club? This past week ...
https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2016/05/04/viewing-science-through-a-different-frame/
A new initiative of the Smithsonian Institution is building a frozen library cataloging snippets of plant tissue from every species on the planet.
https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2015/07/10/dont-worry-about-doomsday-botanists-have-a-plan/
Recently, paleontologists have used genomics to delve into the lives of ancient humans. These studies have capitalized on futuristic techniques to reveal the genealogy, travel plans and sex lives...
https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2015/07/06/paleontologists-are-unzipping-our-genes/
While renowned for the penguins, Antarctica is perhaps equally well known for what it doesn’t have: basically, anything else. But scientist Steven Chown says the view that the icy continent lac...
Last week a study published in Nature pulled the veil on a branch of the bacterial tree of life that has evaded detection for nearly a century and a half. The study used cutting edge genome seque...
In a study published last week, Lamont post-doctoral scholar Heather Ford and coauthors used 4 million-year-old fossils from the Pliocene to reconstruct the physical features of the Pacific Ocean...
https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2015/06/02/tapping-into-earths-secret-history/
Any researcher can attest to the fact that a scientific figure is worth more than a thousand words. Rarely do we take a step back to consider the inherent artistry in the figures created to conve...
https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2015/05/18/distilling-art-from-the-figures-of-science/
I grew up outside of Chicago and I wasn’t a Boy Scout, so sometimes I feel like I missed out on learning the type of practical—albeit rarely used—skills that would have garnered merit badge...
https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2015/03/24/adapting-to-the-unexpected/
I’m writing from where L’Atalante is currently parked, 18S 170W, right in the middle of a giant, anomalously high sea surface chlorophyll patch. Such a high concentration of chlorophyll—a p...
https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2015/03/16/sampling-up-a-storm/