Fred Lerdahl proposes a theory of the sounds of poetry conceived in musical terms.

The gift will expand a comprehensive, multi-institution assessment of how best to prepare students for an AI-driven workforce ...

Psychology researchers used virtual reality and MRI technology to better understand how locations help us encode memories.

CUIMC’s Dr. Maureen McKiernan, with an assist from Dr. Andrew Goldstone, performs surgery on the “ragged edge of what’s ...

Israel in the Year 2000 is a Hebrew novel, published in Israel in 1951 by S. Goldflus. This is the first dystopian Hebrew ...

Head to the Manhattanville campus to see “Lotty Rosenfeld: Disobedient Spaces” at the Wallach Art Gallery through March 15.

In a discovery that could have profound implications for future energy policy, Columbia scientists have demonstrated it is possible to manufacture solar cells that are far more efficient than existing ...

The Vietnamese language provides singular insight into the dynamism of premodern Asia. As John Phan, associate professor of Vietnamese Humanities in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures ...

In Language City, Ross Perlin, a linguist, takes readers on a tour of the city’s communities with endangered tongues. Half of all 7,000-plus human languages may disappear over the next century, ...

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, ...