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Disease detectives at Penn State want to enlist “citizen epidemiologists” to help them with their work. Lots of us hat ...

Employees of the nation’s 500 most profitable companies have to worry less than their counterparts about revealing their sexual ori ...

Curator Karen Reeds is a natural science historian, but when she stands in a ground-floor gallery of the ...

The Pennsylvania attorney general’s office is urging lawmakers to expand the list of crimes that, when committed by a public employ ...

With the first day of school quickly approaching, a free math-tutoring program in East Germantown is still not completely funded. ...

A recent article in the New York Times Magazine on “gender-fluid children” has gotten a lot of attention. It focuses on kids ...

Malaria kills up to a million people each year world-wide. Mortality rates are down by 25 percent over the past decade, according to the ...

Politicians are famous for using a lot of words and saying very little. Stump speeches on the campaign trail can be the worst. How s ...

It’s tough on everybody when “Mom” undergoes an identity crisis. In the early ’80s, MaryAnn Zaidan opened ...

The third grader stood up, shocked that he got the addition problem wrong again. It involved adding hundreds. “What did you ...

Earlier this summer, Chestnut Hill resident Farah Jimenez was appoi ...

When George W. Bush looks back at himself strutting in front of a “Mission Accomplished” banner in a flight suit proclaiming ...

Eric Wilden has only been My Way’s executive director for four weeks and he has already met a lot of potential members, trained new ...

College student Jasmine Walters shares her thoughts on the “controversy” about Gabby Douglas’ hair.  Her poetry is ...

It was a steamy July in Philadelphia. A hundred miles away, a British fleet anchored off of Sandy Hook, full of menace. In ...