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A Rare ChanceMy oldest child and I drove from Massachusetts to New Hampshire to visit my father, who had suffered a stroke. It gave us a rare chance to catch up. After five hours of round trip travel in the car, I reached over to say…

Researchers have created a small device that 'sees' and creates memories in a similar way to humans, in a promising step towards one day having applications that can make rapid, complex decisions such as in self-driving cars. The…

A sensor implanted in one of the heart’s arteries has been proved to cut by half the number of emergency hospital admissions for people with heart failure.The tiny CardioMEMS monitor is able to detect minute fluctuations in blood pressure…

It's official: The river of wearables and wellness-trackers has run all the way up to highest nook of your ear. The new company STAT Health announced a device Tuesday that sits in your ear, above the canal, that measures blood flow to your…

Boyhood Memory, 64 Years LaterIndiana, summer 1959: It was my first season of organized baseball. The same was true for JR. I was a Black kid living in the inner-city; he was a white kid from the suburbs. The youngest team members, we, as…

The world’s most endangered marine mammal, a small porpoise called the vaquita, is hanging onto existence and appears to be benefiting from new conservation measures, according to the results of the latest scientific survey of the…

Half Full or Half Empty?I called him “Cup Guy” because in every photo on his dating profile, he held a cup. Last Pride month, our relationship fizzled. Five months later, I watched him kiss someone new at “our” bar in the West Village.…

While indigestible video capsule endoscopes have been around for many years, the capsules have been limited by the fact that they could not be controlled by physicians. They moved passively, driven only by gravity and the natural movement…

College recruiters walked immigrant neighborhoods, knocking on doors or stopping people in shopping malls, selling the merits of a business-school education and adding a surprising offer: Get paid to enroll.“Money, money, money,” said…

Lucky There Isn’t Another PlaceI owned a small laundromat called “The Laundromat” on Fire Island. Carol walked in with musty sheets and towels from her share house. I quoted her $48.50 (this was in 1976). “I’m from the Bronx,” she said. “I…