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Researchers have identified companies fishing in high seas—waters that lie outside of national jurisdiction where fishing has raised fears about environmental and labor violations.

Researchers have found that information about economic inequality focusing on the disadvantages facing people from the lower-socioeconomic class leads Americans to engage more with the issue and to express greater support for action to mitigate inequality.

Researchers Find That Timing of Mass Extinctions Lines Up with Asteroid Impacts and Massive Volcanic Eruptions

Jin Kim Montclare and Daniel Sodickson have been named Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors.

Global Liberal Studies’ Kyle Wanberg considers the influence of colonial cartography on literature past and present.

Our brains respond to language expressing facts differently than they do to words conveying possibility--a finding that has implications for fake news.

Study sees no evidence of a positive relationship between city-level transit ridership and influenza/pneumonia mortality rates.

NYU's Urban Democracy Lab, in a newly released white paper, is calling for the creation of a new federal housing authority in order to avoid massive evictions spurred by the coronavirus and to provide long-term community stability.

An NYU music historian points to the influences of African American groups such as the Shirelles in songs by Bob Dylan, the Beatles, and the Rolling Stones.

Collaboration will fund research to develop new drugs to treat gastrointestinal disorders