Researchers at Columbia University have created a process in which machines can physically grow by consuming parts from other robots or their environment. This new technology, described as 'robot metabolism', allows robots to absorb materials to expand, repair, and improve themselves, much like living organisms, according to a study published in Science Advances, a peer-reviewed scientific journal.

At least 40 to 50 students, their hands cuffed with plastic zip-ties, were seen being loaded into New York Police Department vans

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials did not immediately respond to a request for information.

The government this month canceled $400 million in funding for Columbia and threatened to withhold billions more

A number of top US universities are adopting measures including freezing hires, laying off staff, and decreasing graduate student admissions. 

The freeze was the “most drastic step” Harvard is taking in response to new White House orders.

US campuses including Columbia's were rocked by student protests against Israel's war in Gaza following the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack.

US university students protest Gaza war, face arrests, suspensions, expulsion threats.

University President Nemat Minouche Shafik said in a statement that days of negotiations between student organizers and academic leaders had failed to persuade demonstrators to remove the dozens of tents set up to express opposition to Israel's war in Gaza.