Last spring, Columbia participated in its first City Nature Challenge. Nearly 103,000 people participated in the international campaign meant to help find, document and share urban wildlife, with ...

When third-year operations and supply chain and entrepreneurship student Zack Coetzee started investigating rideshare safety, he found an alarming fact. Over the course of five years, sexual assault ...

All was normal Friday morning at Meadow Glen Middle School for Gabriel Lyons, a 12-year-old boy from Lexington, South Carolina. Then he noticed a limousine circling the building. Arriving to pick up ...

South Carolina's softball team took two of three games against the No. 11 Texas A&M Aggies in a conference win at Beckham Field over the weekend. The Gamecocks captured a 3-1 win Friday night, falling ...

On Sept. 22, 1989, Hurricane Hugo made landfall in South Carolina. It had recently been downgraded to a Category 4 hurricane with sustained winds of 140 mph. The storm surge pounded the coast, with ...

In 2015, a historic 1 in 100-year flood — meaning the probability of occurring in any future year is 1% — severely impacted Columbia and South Carolina. More recently, in the fall of 2024, hot ocean ...

Telling a story is always a challenge, but trying to tell someone else's life story presents a different task altogether. This is what makes biopics a great genre of movies: they allow you to step ...

With his upcoming sequel to Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” titled “The Adventures of Cliff Booth,” being released this summer, David Fincher deserves a retrospective on his career ...

As the 2025-26 school year comes to an end, we move forward with our college careers. We've faced challenges — bad exam grades, difficult professors and motivation dips — but we've also had ...

Columbia native Mike Sloan started driving for Uber in 2019, but it wasn’t until six months later that USC students dubbed his silver Nissan Armada the “Watermelon Crawl.” The nickname references ...

When first-year neuroscience student Gemma Weinhagen discovered Formula 1 racing through TikTok and Netflix's "Formula 1: Drive to Survive" documentary over the summer, she found herself instantly ...