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THE CITY'S newest class of firefighters is also its most diverse in history - comprising 40% minorities plus the son of a 9/11 hero.

Researchers at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, and City University of New York have invented a proprietary new formulation called VisikolTM that effectively clears organisms to be viewed under microscopes.

Cops busted a sicko who raped a woman in an alleyway near Brooklyn College, police sources said Thursday night.

You sit here today, $30,000 or $40,000 in debt, as the latest victims of what may well be the biggest conspiracy in U.S. history.

Susan Billy moved from Berkeley into her grandmother's house, the one her grandfather built at the turn of the century on the Hopland Rancheria in 1973.

Hofstadter's Butterfly, a complex pattern of the energy states of electrons that resembles a butterfly, has appeared in physics textbooks as a theoretical concept of quantum mechanics for nearly 40 years but had never been directly observed - until now.

Tenor Benjamin Robinson is among the guest soloists joining Richmond Choral Society for "Divine Light." "DIVINE LIGHT" Richmond Choral Society under the baton of Marina Alexandar STATEN ISLAND, NY - People shopping for transcendence and spiritual refreshment can look to churches and temples, 12-step sessions and yoga classes.

A discovery of the oldest known fossils from two major primate groups fills in a 10-million-year gap in the record and reveals new information about evolution Two new Oligocene primates found in Tanzania, Rukwapithecus fleaglei and Nsungwepithecus gunnelli , are shown here in an artist's reconstruction.

Dr. Bebop says his new theme song these days is "Don't Get Around Much Anymore," but the truth is he's doing fine.

The number of people who applied last week for new unemployment benefits surged to the highest level in a month and a half, indicating the U.S. labor market is still not healing fast enough to rapidly bring down the nation's jobless rate.

Two U.S. mayors who are all too familiar with the toll of gun violence on city streets - Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak and Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter - found a venue to voice their frustration here Wednesday.

Animal-rights activist Bill Crain is led away by a State Trooper after his arrest Dec.

What it's about: Debut novel, set in rural Mississippi, about a young black man whose family has been ruined in the Great Flood of 1927 and is seeking his place in a violent and unjust world.

Riverdalians Dita Wolf and Alec Diacou, along with Mary Ellen Sullivan, chair of the College of Mount Saint Vincent's teacher education department, are in the midst of applying to open non-profit charter schools in the Bronx in fall 2014.

This is an artistic image illustration of a butterfly departing from a graphene moire pattern formed on the top of an atomically thin boron nitride substrate.

The United Nations must change with the times, the world peacekeeping group's former leader told a Yale University audience Thursday.

Vanity Fair Editor Graydon Carter, who turns 64 in July, is in the midst of negotiating a new contract, kicking the Cond Nast rumor mill into high gear as the company enters a more fiscally conservative era.

Everything moves faster in cities - including evolution, new research suggests. Huddled together in the wooded "islands" of New York City parks, urban white-footed mice have begun to differentiate genetically from their rural brethren in the larger forested areas surrounding the city - and from one another within the metropolis - according to new ... (more)

Amy Jo Southworth, school librarian at Bay Shore High School in Sayville, N.Y., is the 2013 recipient of the American Association of School Librarians' Frances Henne Award.

Rose Volpe and her husband Edmond are shown during a visit to the College of Staten Island in March 2007.