Science

The controversial cross-state project has been beset with technical, environmental and regulatory challenges.

Studies of asteroids are revealing that they might have a watery history. The DAWN spacecraft orbiting Ceres has provided data that sugge ...

Advocates for Pennsylvania landowners are challenging a statement made recently by one of Governor Tom Wolf’s top aides, after saying complaints over gas royalties subsided.

Activists set up a pancake breakfast picnic on an Amish farm in Conestoga adjacent to a construction site and invited the pipeline workers to share a meal.

A New York company is planning to build a natural gas plant in Pennsylvania’s biggest coal county.

The Environmental Protection Agency's Administrator, Scott Pruitt, has issued a new policy restricting who can serve on the agency's advisory boards.

What happens when we step away from people and places?

A bill aims to address abandoned mine lands with a focus on economic development. Proponents see it as a way to imagine a more sustainable future for old coal country.

PFOA has been linked to cancer, high cholesterol, and developmental problems in young children

AstraZeneca gets FDA approval to move forward with Calquence (acalabrutinib), a drug used to fight an aggressive form of blood cancer.

The devastation left by last month’s powerful storm is making it impossible to continue her work on Puerto Rico.

The hundreds of remains in question would have been found between March and June at a Center City location under construction for condos.

Not merely out-of-this-world, a comet from beyond our solar system came and went earlier this month. Cross-quarter-day approaches ...

Jacquelyn Bonomo is succeeding Larry Schweiger as the leader of PennFuture. Schweiger is retiring.