The heroic days of deciphering hieroglyphics and cuneiform make for great stories, but will we ever see that happen again?

Advances in non-acoustic submarine detection could undermine traditional stealth advantages. Technologies exploiting magnetic ...

Tamil Oli, a poet of the Dravidian movement, blended Tamil communist literature with anti-caste themes. Known for his May Day ...

Hyenas stage mock brawls, cats spin in circles chasing their tails, octopuses play push-and-pull with bottles, dogs bury ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that more than 40% of adults worldwide are overweight or obese — a statistic that has nearly tripled since 1975. 1,2 However, sustainable weight loss ...

(1988), an essay about the place of women in colonial India and how knowledge work has historically ... She has held the post of University Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University since ...

About half of U.S. adults (51%) say it is extremely or very important for the U.S. to make English its official language. Most say they’d move to the U.S. again if they could and cite a good ...

Do you work at Columbia University? Manage your school's public image and connection with students using U.S. News Student Connect. See expanded profiles of nearly 1,800 schools. Unlock entering ...

“It’s absolutely bizarre and unprecedented to imagine a governmental entity would intervene,” said David Damrosch, a professor of comparative literature at Harvard University. Damrosch was a ...

Go beyond Euro-American literary canons and redefine ‘the classics’. The MA Comparative Literature is an opportunity to study literature from the regions of Africa and Asia. Covering universal themes ...

Most say they’d move to the U.S. again if they could and cite a good comparative standard of living. But 59% also see major issues with the immigration system. In 2022, roughly 10.6 million immigrants ...