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Some humans here on Earth think so, now that the Opportunity rover’s mission has ended.

Of the 8 million vehicles registered in Pennsylvania, just 15,000 of them are electric.

Astronaut Scott Kelly's immune system on high alert and changed the activity of some of his genes compared to his Earth-bound identical twin, researchers said Friday.

Math is a discipline of logic, but for lots of us, it may as well be magic: a force as powerful as it is unattainable. The “math anxiou ...

NASA's Opportunity, the Mars rover that was built to operate for just three months but kept going and going, was pronounced dead Wednesday.

Jobs in Pennsylvania’s solar industry grew 10 percent last year while declining three percent nationally, according to a new analysis.

Left off publications due to Nazi prejudice, this Jewish woman lost her rightful place in the scientific pantheon as the discoverer of nuclear fission.

Astronomers at the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have detected that our Milky Way galaxy, while ...

Leslie Vosshall, a neurobiologist at Rockefeller University, is hoping to control mosquitoes, and the diseases they carry, by switching off their enormous appetite.

Once again, the New Jersey osprey comeback story added another happy chapter to 2018, a report released by the Conserve Wildlife Foundation of New Jersey finds.

New Jersey scientists are accusing the federal government not considering many health risks posed by a group of chemicals that are designed to substitute PFAs.

Research into groundhog biology shows they have other priorities in early February than mingling with the people of Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, and it all boils down to sex.

A scientist in New York is conducting experiments designed to modify DNA in human embryos as a step toward someday preventing inherited diseases.

If you live along the Jersey Shore, you may notice a variety of barriers in place to prevent flooding. Here's a look at a few of the most common techniques.

The Clean Water Act helped turn the Delaware River and its waterfront into a place many people enjoy today. But can the river be protected from future pollution?