Are U.S. Cities Getting More or Less Violent? New Database Offers Mixed, But Optimistic, Picture
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Violence has fallen in nearly all major U.S. cities since 1991, according to a new analysis by researchers at New York University. However, recent fluctuations in violence in selected cities point to temporary disruptions in this 17-year decline.
The Behavior of Water: Scientists Find New Properties of H2O
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A team of scientists has uncovered new molecular properties of water—a discovery of a phenomenon that had previously gone unnoticed.
How to Shorten the Length of MLB Games—and Make Them More Competitive? Researchers Have an “Out” Strategy
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NYU researchers who outline a rule change that would shorten major-league baseball games by almost half an hour while making contests closer and, perhaps, re-igniting interest in the game.
Jeffrey Eugenides, Tracy K. Smith, and Zadie Smith Among Those Featured at Creative Writing Program Events in Sept.
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The Creative Writing Program’s Fall 2018 Reading Series commences with events featuring Jeffrey Eugenides and Zadie Smith (Sept. 13) as well as Tracy K. Smith (Sept. 20).
NYU’s Extended Reality Experience “CAVE” to Premiere at SIGGRAPH, Aug. 12-16 in Vancouver
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NYU's Future Reality Lab will premiere CAVE, a ground-breaking extended reality story, Aug. 12-16 at this year’s SIGGRAPH in Vancouver.
Biology's Sanjana Receives DARPA 2018 Young Faculty Award for Precise Gene Repair
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Biologist Neville Sanjana has received the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Young Faculty Award for his proposal to develop new tools for precise gene repair using CRISPR.
How We See Others’ Emotions Depends on Our Pre-Conceived Beliefs
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How we see emotions on another person’s face depends on our pre-conceived views of how we understand these emotions, NYU researchers have found.
NYU’s Tucker Part of Effort to Gauge Impact of Social Media on Elections and Democracy
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Joshua Tucker, a professor in NYU’s Department of Politics and director for the Jordan Center for the Advance Study of Russia, will be part of a research organization that will examine the impact of social media on elections and democracy.
Scientists Capture Breaking of Glacier in Greenland
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A team of scientists has captured on video a four-mile iceberg breaking away from a glacier in eastern Greenland, an event that points to one of the forces behind global sea-level rise.
Scholars from Puerto Rico at the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies This Summer
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NYU's Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies will host seven scholars from Puerto Rico for a residential research fellowship during the month of July.