New York City Mayor Eric Adams today signed legislation that will further bolster New York City’s life sciences and biotech sectors by offering a tax incentive for growing biotech companies to create jobs in New York City. The new law builds on significant progress the Adams administration has made toContinue Reading
NOVEMBER 30: General view of Al Wasl during the UN Climate Change Conference COP28 at Expo City Dubai on November 30, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (Photo by COP28 / Mahmoud Khaled) COP28 Must Be A Turning Point for Our Planet and All People “We don’t need to reinventContinue Reading
TEAHUPOʻO, TAHITI, FRENCH POLYNESIA – AUGUST 10: Kanoa Igarashi of Japan at the WSLOO Activation coral restoration at the SHISEIDO Tahiti Pro on August 10, 2023 at Teahupoʻo, Tahiti, French Polynesia. (Photo by Beatriz Ryder/World Surf League) Today, the World Surf League (WSL) and its non-profit partner, WSL PURE, celebratedContinue Reading
The Secret World of Elephants features a life-size model of an African elephant—the largest living land animal. A video projection on one side of the African elephant model shows the skeleton of this massive mammal and provides an inside look at how it processes the huge amount of food it eats—aboutContinue Reading
Credit: Julie Larsen @WCS Mangshan pit vipers (Protobothrops mangshanensis) are seldom encountered in the wild, but visitors to the Bronx Zoo now have an opportunity to observe a hatchling in the nursery at the World of Reptiles. Among the world’s rarest snake species, the venomous, vividly colored Mangshan pit viperContinue Reading
A reconstruction of two Jormungandr walhallaensis mosasaurs fighting © Henry Sharpe Jormungandr, a 24-foot aquatic lizard that lived 80 million years ago, is found to be a transitional species between two well-known mosasaurs Scientists have discovered a new species of mosasaur, large, carnivorous aquatic lizards that lived during the late Cretaceous. With “transitional”Continue Reading
The WCS Ocean Giants Team recently had a close encounter with a humpback whale in the NY Bight, when the whale (one in a pair of whales) approached their boat and swam around it for several minutes – images and memories that last a lifetime. The team, about 60 milesContinue Reading
Photos: From left: Protoceratops andrewsi, collected in 1994 by the joint American Museum of Natural History/Mongolian Academy of Sciences team at Ukhaa Tolgod, Gobi Desert, Mongolia. © AMNH/M. Ellison; Mark Norell © AMNH/D. Finnin; Fossil skull of Citipati osmolskae, collected in 1994 by the joint American Museum of Natural History/MongolianContinue Reading
Previews ‘Best of the World’ Travel Recommendations, Launching in Early 2024 and Reimagined in Scope and Direction Content Promises Wonder and Inspiration Through Incredible Photographs and a Special Curation of Travel Recommendations Across Categories At National Geographic’s content showcase at Hall des Lumières, Senior Vice President and Editor-in-Chief Nathan LumpContinue Reading
New Research Hub Brings Together Leading Institutions to Engineer Immune Cells for Early Disease Prevention, Detection, and Treatment New York City and New York State Each Contributing $10 Million to New Facility Today, New York City Mayor Eric Adams, New York Governor Kathy Hochul, and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI),Continue Reading