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Schumer Wants Tougher Action Against Online Blackmailers

By James Brown | February 11, 2019

Senator Chuck Schumer is calling on lawmakers to make online predator blackmailing a federal crime. That’s when someone steals your personal information online and threatens you with it.

As a child on a New York farm, Eben Bayer helped his dad shovel wood chips in the barn. That's where he noticed a stretchy web of fungus that became the basis of his biodegradable packing material.

VIDEO: New York Inventor Inspired By Childhood Memories Of Fungus

Dieter Egli, a developmental biologist at Columbia University, and Katherine Palmerola examine a newly fertilized egg injected with a CRISPR editing tool.

New York Experiments Aim To Create Gene-Edited Human Embryos

Pedestrians crossing from Mexico into the United States at the Otay Mesa Port of Entry wait to use biometric kiosks in San Diego. A new study says visa overstays exceeded illegal border crossings.

Visa Overstays Exceeded Illegal Border Crossings, Say New York Researchers

Lack Of Funding Poses Challenges For Expanding Broadband Access In PA

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Summit Will Promote Improved Internet Access In The Finger Lakes

By Caitlin Whyte | January 28, 2019

Bridging the internet access gap in the Finger Lakes is the focus of a summit today in Geneva. The Finger Lakes Digital Inclusion Coalition is meeting to discuss how a lack of internet access at home can affect communities in the region.

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SUNY Nears Completion Of Blight-Resistant American Chestnut Trees

By Ellen Abbott | January 9, 2019

Scientists at SUNY ESF have been trying to bring back the American chestnut tree for decades.  Three to four billion of the trees were destroyed by blight in the first half of the 20th century, but researchers are now getting close to bringing back an American chestnut resistant to blight.

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A New Disposal Method For Unused Medications Offered By PA Clinics

By Celia Clarke | January 4, 2019

A health network in Pennsylvania’s Tioga County hopes to reduce the abuse of unused medications by making them harder to find.  Nationally, young people who abuse prescription opioids usually get them from friends and relatives. 

The night sky over New York City turned bright blue Thursday night, the result of a sustained electrical arc flash at an Astoria, Queens, power plant, according to Con Edison.

‘No Evidence Of Extraterrestrial Activity,’ As New York City Is Bathed In Blue Light

By NPR News | December 28, 2018

Utility company Con Edison says the light emanated from “a sustained electrical arc flash that was visible across a wide area.” Witnesses had many other ideas.

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PA Researchers Push For Answers On Carbon Capture: Will It Stay Where We Put It?

By Amy Sisk | December 18, 2018

If power plants that burn fossil fuels could capture their carbon emissions and store them somewhere, it would go a long way toward preventing greenhouse gases from entering the atmosphere.

Google says it will lease office space at three spots in the West Village to create a new campus for thousands of workers in New York City. Here, a pedestrian passes by 345 Hudson Street, one of the buildings Google will be using.

Google Will Spend $1 Billion For New York Campus On Hudson River

By NPR News | December 17, 2018

“In fact, we’re growing faster outside the [San Francisco] Bay Area than within it,” says Chief Financial Officer Ruth Porat, a senior vice president of both Google and its parent company, Alphabet.

Teens and phone addiction.

New York Girls And Their Moms Get Candid About Phones And Social Media

By NPR News | December 17, 2018

About half of all teens say they’ve tried to cut back on their phone use. But one of the girls we spoke with says that’s hard when “it’s obviously designed to be addictive.”

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In 2018, Harmful Algal Blooms On Cayuga Lake Increased Five-Fold Over The Year Before

By Celia Clarke | December 14, 2018

Significantly more harmful algal blooms were reported on Cayuga Lake this year than in 2017. A local non-profit reports the 2018 blooms were more likely to contain toxins harmful humans and small mammals, like cats and dogs.

Evelyn Berezin, New York Scientist Behind Groundbreaking Word Processor, Dies At 93

By NPR News | December 12, 2018

Berezin studied physics but, despairing of the job market in physics, she turned to the rapidly transforming computer industry. She invented the first truly computerized system for word processing.

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New York Firm Will Build NASA’s Next-Generation Space Telescope

By Randy Gorbman | December 6, 2018

Harris Corporation has been awarded a nearly  $196 million contract to help build a space-based telescope.  The work involves the Wide Field Infrared Survey  Telescope, or  WFIRST, for short.

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