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Martin Goetz, who joined the computer industry in its infancy in the mid-1950s as a programmer working on Univac mainframes and who later received the first U.S. patent for software, died on...

Over the past decade, the sunflower sea star has gone from a mighty predator of the Pacific Ocean floor to nearing extinction. The Nature Conservancy estimates that 5.75 billion sunflower sea stars...

Attacks on medical facilities jeopardize health care not only for those injured by fighting, but also for all those with routine medical needs. On Thursday, Doctors Without Borders (also known as M.S.F.,...

At first, it seemed to be another caprice of two already unusual animals: Flying squirrels and platypuses were found to be fluorescent, absorbing invisible ultraviolet light and re-emitting it in shocking pink...

Lifelike prints of fish caught by his young grandchildren adorned the walls of David Suzuki’s vacation home — finely detailed images of rock cods and salmon created by pressing the animals into...

Hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean are now twice as likely to grow from a weak storm into a major Category 3 or higher hurricane within just 24 hours, according to a study...

Dr. David Shaffer, a psychiatrist who spent decades studying children and teenagers who died by suicide, constructing a framework for screening and laying the groundwork for modern prevention efforts, died on Sunday...

Por qué es importante: nuevas formas de diagnosticar y tratar la covid prolongadaSe trata de uno de los nuevos estudios que documentan cambios biológicos distintivos en el cuerpo de las personas con...

This article is part of the Fine Arts & Exhibits special section on the art world’s expanded view of what art is and who can make it.Six years. Thousands of hours of...

Roland Griffiths, a professor of behavioral science and psychiatry whose pioneering work in the study of psychedelics helped usher in a new era of research into those once banned substances — and...