Students at the New School in Manhattan, which sees design opportunities in climate change.
The historically progressive school plans to bolster its curriculum to include more attention in its courses to climate change and sustainability.
In October, riders were not deterred after reports that an Ebola-infected man had ridden the subway just before he fell ill.
New York health officials contested a finding by researchers who said they had discovered in stations evidence of the deadly disease that ravaged 14th-century Europe.
The redevelopment of a former NASA building is providing a window into the high-stakes real estate of Kendall Square in Cambridge, Mass., one of the most valuable markets in the country.
The maker of the OtisKnee surgical guides started selling them before seeking clearance from the Food and Drug Administration, which later rejected the application.
For two weeks, a family in Park Slope, Brooklyn, has been caring for a black swallowtail butterfly that made its way into their home by hiding in their Christmas tree.
New research indicates that some bedbugs are well on their way to becoming a new species.
A weekly increase in new cases, the first this year, was worrisome because some of them were patients who had not been listed for monitoring, health officials said.
Favipiravir has shown preliminary signs of effectiveness in a study, raising questions about its wider use and the testing of another therapy.
Researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College mapped DNA found in New York’s subway system, finding that almost half the genetic material did not match any known organism.
Even a slight change in the precariously controlled violence of the sun, an enormous thermonuclear furnace, can have drastic consequences on Earth.
Dr. Margaret Hamburg, who led the Food and Drug Administration for nearly six years, was praised and criticized for speeding the approval of medicines.
Scientists are arguing about the extent to which it is ethical to pay participants, and whether results of trials that do so can be trusted.
Some nations have clamped down on blast fishing, which is generally illegal, but it continues in areas where explosives are available and people are desperate.
The House of Commons voted to allow the in vitro creation of embryos using the DNA of three people, a procedure that could prevent the inheritance of genetic diseases.
The report said that when oil prices fall, the lower cost to move the oil through a pipeline would make it more attractive to buyers and increase production and the amount of greenhouse gas emissions.
Health supplements on display at Walgreens in Times Square in Manhattan.
GNC, Target, Walgreens and Walmart were accused of selling fraudulent and potentially dangerous herbal supplements and told by New York State officials to stop selling them.
Capturing and collaring the animals looks a bit like a rodeo, but it’s all in the name of preservation.
StarTalk, a TV talk show based on the radio show and podcast of the same name, will air on the National Geographic Channel in April.
The budget President Obama sent to Congress would establish a coordinated way for researchers to get genetic and clinical data on a million people.
NASA’s Curiosity rover has found evidence of lakes and streams on a warmer, wetter, habitable Mars.
Would-be Mars pilgrims must count on living, and dying, some 140 million miles from Earth. Nevertheless, there is demand for one-way tickets.
The case for an early Mars that was ripe and ready for living organisms has grown stronger.
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