This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American I bought a Kindle recently, and excitedly ...

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Tallahassee has lost one of the worlds’ greatest scientists, who passed away from natural causes on June 6. Born in Bluffton, Ohio, in 1944, Alan George Marshall received his undergraduate degree in ...

In 2013, a mysterious epidemic swept across the Pacific Coast of North America, rapidly turning billions of sea stars from Mexico to Alaska into goo. Its name, sea star wasting disease (SSWD), ...