In about one out of every 800 people, two chromosomes fuse together to form an unusual bond. These are known as Robertsonian chromosomes. It's a mystery that has long stumped scientists.

Award-winning painter Celia Smith is pictured in her Lawrence studio on Aug. 27, 2025. At 96, Celia Smith has had more time than most to look at the world. For nearly a century, she has lived a life ...

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MAR DEL PLATA, Argentina (AP) — An Argentine federal court announced Wednesday that authorities had recovered the long-lost “Portrait of a Lady,” an 18th-century work by the Italian painter Giuseppe ...

What makes every person unique? Part of the answer is in our genes.

Scientists confirmed genetic continuity in Leonardo da Vinci’s male descendants. Work is underway to compare ancient remains and possibly recover his DNA. For more than five hundred years, Leonardo da ...

University of Westminster provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. At a seminar on building cooling strategies in the late 1990s, I vividly remember hearing that “in 30 years time, the ...

PITTSBURGH — In the early hours of Thursday morning, students at Carnegie Mellon University painted a tribute on the school’s fence to honor Charlie Kirk, who was shot and killed while speaking at a ...

The Manhattan apartment building where The New York Times executive editor Joseph Kahn lives was vandalized early Friday in what appeared to be a display of criticism against the paper’s coverage of ...

The Belmont Gallery. 1864. The Belmont Gallery, on exhibition for the Benefit of the U.S. Sanitary Commission, Monday, April 4th, to Saturday, April 9th. Open every day from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. 109 Fifth ...

The defendant who allegedly killed a father of three in Shrewsbury last week shot him five times during an apparent dispute over spray-painting and a scooter, records show. Details of the killing were ...