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Q&A: Guinness World Record holder Lexie Alford on traveling to every country

After studying away, we thought we were expert solo travelers — until we sat down with the youngest person ever to visit every single country.

Anthony Ferrara and Roshni Raj • May 6, 2022

Last semester, we studied away at NYU Abu Dhabi and NYU London, where we fully immersed ourselves in the local cultures. Over 40% of NYU students study away for at least one 16-week...

Finding a Valuable Lesson in the Melting of Antarctica

A piece of ice twice the size of Manhattan will soon break off of Antartica. Read one writer’s take on the situation and what we can learn from it in the fight against climate change.

April 2, 2019

For the last few years, two fault lines in the Brunt Ice Shelf, near the westward Coats Lands region of Antarctica, have been slowly creeping toward one another. Although scientists...

Volcanoes Are Lit, ‘Inferno’ Is Not

Zach Martin, Editor at Large • October 31, 2016

With all of the fiery potentional that a film about volcanoes presents, "Into the Inferno" was disappointingly distracted throughout its construction.

NYU opens satellite campus in South Pole

April 1, 2013

With the opening of this campus, NYU will have portal campuses on every continent.