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For 12 consecutive years from 1958 to 1970, Rhode Island State Senator Francis J. LaChapelle, of West Warwick, proposed ever-evolving legislation to legalize gambling on Block Island. He promised a

The United States’ most distinguished biomedical research award is being given to Oregon Health & Science University physician-scientist David Huang, M.D., Ph.D., for co-inventing an imaging technology that routinely helps prevent blindness and is increasingly used to diagnose and treat conditions of the heart, brain, skin and more. Huang is receiving the 2023 Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award as a co-inventor of optical coherence tomography, or OCT. Huang shares the award wit...

One starry night in the North African desert, a young Block Islander in uniform manned his post. As part of the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II, he sat at his desk as a control tower operator. With a receiver on his ears, he directed and...

The interior of Edwards Lifesciences’ Innovation Center near Tel Aviv mixes cool scientific futurism with an organic approach

The Mechanics’ Institute Chess Room’s tournaments are bringing people back to Downtown SF, a model for how events can be a draw in office workers.

A runaway dump truck struck and killed two men in northwest Georgia on Tuesday, leaving two others with serious injuries.

Today, The Tribune continues its 17th annual series of articles looking back at the news and newspaper advertisements from Mooresville’s newspaper of 100 years ago.

Anne Bell underwent pioneering surgery to replace a heart valve with an artificial one in 1972.

Anne Bell underwent pioneering surgery to replace a heart valve with an artificial one in 1972.

Anne Bell underwent pioneering surgery to replace a heart valve with an artificial one in 1972.