Judge orders release of Columbia activist Mahmoud Khalil from ICE detention

A federal judge in New Jersey on Friday ordered that Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil must be released from detention by Immigration and Customs Enforcement as his immigration proceedings play out.  During a hearing before U.S. District Judge Michael Farbiarz, Khalil’s attorneys asked him to free Khalil from detention or transfer him to New Jersey….

Elevators could soon take astronauts to the moon, study reveals | – The Times of India

A groundbreaking study by researchers from the University of Cambridge and Columbia University proposes a futuristic but feasible method for lunar travel: space elevators. Rather than relying on expensive, fuel-hungry rockets, this new approach envisions a thin, ultra-strong cable stretching from the moon to Earth’s orbit. This “spaceline” could dramatically reduce mission costs and energy…