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With about half of the country still suffering from extreme drought, farmers and businesses in the Western United States are looking at another hot, dry summer.

Applications for the second annual T. Fellowship will be accepted from May 22, 2013 through August 1, 2013.

As a health nut and foodie, 36-year-old Shazi Visram had a problem with processed baby food.

Hour 1: What makes political cartoons stick with us after the headlines fade? We'll talk this hour with Victor Navasky , longtime editor of The Nation and professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

Ezra Koenig wanted to be clear about this: The frontman of Vampire Weekend was not comparing his band to the Beatles.

Working out is one of the best things you can do for your overall health, but a new Columbia University study confirms the idea that too much of a good thing can actually be bad.

There are many neurons, especially in brain regions that perform sophisticated functions such as thinking and planning, that react in different ways to a wide variety of things.

In a commencement address to business students at Columbia University, New York Times CEO Mark Thompson hailed the company's digital subscription strategy and dismissed skeptics who say media outlets can't reinvent themselves.

They do not correspond to a simple stimulus/response linkage, but arise from the networking of different neural circuits.

By James Hedberg for Columbia University. Artistic image illustration of butterfly departing from graphene moire pattern formed on the top of atomically thin boron nitride substrate.

A warmer climate means more extremely hot days in summer , and fewer extremely cold days in winter, meaning people are more likely to die in summer than they used to be, and less so in winter.

A study in the journal Nature Climate Change suggests that heat deaths in Manhattan will increase over the rest of this century in connection with higher temperatures associated with global warming.

Chelsea Clinton is wearing a new professional hat, one that will take her into a religious direction.

Every pure mathematician has experienced that awkward moment when asked, "So what's your research good for?" There are standard responses: a proud "Nothing!"; an explanation that mathematical research is an art form like, say, Olympic gymnastics ; or a stammered response that so much of pure math has ended up finding application that maybe, ... (more)

A conservative reading of Title IX has some schools ordering faculty and staff to report cases of sexual harassment even when the victim has pleaded for secrecy.

As the weather in New York City creeps back toward summer-like temperatures, a bit of warning: Enjoy it while you can.

The residents of Manhattan and New York are already feeling the effects of global warming after experiencing Hurricanes Irene and Superstorm Sandy.

We'll say this much for Dan Aykroyd : The guy does not give up easily. Despite years and years and years of setbacks on Ghostbusters 3 , the former Dr.

The allure of personalized medicine has made new, more efficient ways of sequencing genes a top research priority.

Gov. Rick Scott today signed a bill requiring Florida school districts to start paying for the classes that teenagers take at local colleges through their high schools' dual-enrollment programs.