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Emerging in monasteries and convents, apothecaries were later incorporated into guilds to serve the general public. But the ...

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At 103, Howard Tucker is the world’s oldest practicing doctor. He answered these burning questions from Nat Geo readers.

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The dig might have uncovered some of the earliest victims of the Black Death, and other tantalizing clues about medieval life ...

Some of the country’s most storied landscapes are best explored on foot — we’ve got trails for strollers, striders and ...

The Age of AI will rely on massive volumes of data that can be easily stored and retrieved—and bioscience may have an ...