Society

The head count is almost complete in the first tally of the world’s marine species

New material may soon become a valuable tool in the fight against pollution

Swing coach Sean Foley has made believers out of golf’s young stars. That gets people talking.

The sisters of Poor Clares have an unlikely ally in their mission of prayer: a customized news reading device

No longer just a disease of the elderly?

She had a passion for history, especially her own family’s, and recently decided to return to the simpler life she loved as a child

ToneCheck, a free program that aims to save people from sending emotionally charged emails

Why can’t our best and brightest new cardiac surgeons get jobs?

A groundbreaking blogger became an apologist for the regime. That didn’t stop Tehran from putting him on trial.

Why the one-time critic of the IOC signed on as chef de mission for 2012