Bondi, an 8-month-old toy poodle, had just returned from a walk when he began stumbling. His head wobbled and soon he could barely stand, so his owner, Colleen Briggs, rushed him to the vet.
Plants & Animals
May 2, 2023
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Just in time for Earth Day, New York City has issued a new sustainability plan, one that focuses on means as well as ends. Like the initial plan issued by the Bloomberg administration in 2007, the Adams plan is grounded in ...
Environment
Apr 24, 2023
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How do New Yorkers react to robots that approach them in public looking for trash? Surprisingly well, actually.
Social Sciences
Apr 20, 2023
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"THEY park on the sidewalks and hide fire hydrants with their cars. They angle where they should parallel and turn normal streets into obstacle paths. They never seem to feed their parking meters, they rarely get tickets ...
The United States experiences a staggeringly high rate of gun homicides, but accurately predicting these incidents—especially on a monthly basis—has been a significant challenge, due to the lag in the release of official ...
Mathematics
Apr 7, 2023
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The I ♥ NY logo was launched in the 1970s when New York City was at its grittiest and most dangerous. Since then graphic designer Milton Glaser's creation has been emblazoned on every kind of souvenir imaginable, not to ...
Social Sciences
Mar 30, 2023
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Astrophysicists at the Institute for Advanced Study, the Flatiron Institute and their colleagues have leveraged artificial intelligence to uncover a better way to estimate the mass of colossal clusters of galaxies. The AI ...
Astronomy
Mar 23, 2023
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Twitter may hold a key to pinpointing precise neighborhoods where systemic racism and homophobia have taken hold, allowing researchers to measure the mental-health impact on diverse groups of people who spend time in those ...
Social Sciences
Mar 22, 2023
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Air pollution is a major public health problem: The World Health Organization has estimated that it leads to over 4 million premature deaths worldwide annually. Still, it is not always extensively measured. But now an MIT ...
Environment
Mar 16, 2023
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New Yorkers woke Tuesday to something they have barely seen this winter: snow.
Environment
Feb 28, 2023
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