Science

Freshwater mussels function as nature’s water treatment plants. Each animal can filter up to 600 gallons of water per month. And when w ...

Guests: Alan Stern, David Grinspoon NASA’s New Horizons spaceship launched in 2006 to visit tiny Pluto at edge ...

Newly discovered? A purple planet! Actually, the color suggestion is just speculation based on the planet’s expected chemical compo ...

Researchers found that stimulating a specific region of mice’s brains called the entorhinal cortex decreased their symptoms of depression.

A critical part of NASA's next $2 billion rover mission to Mars broke during testing earlier this month.

Bears in Pennsylvania are struggling with mange they can't seem to kick. Scientists are studying what's unique about the disease in the state.

Our sun, like so many others, was born as part of a cluster of stars. Sibling stars have the same chemical composition and can be discove ...

Philadelphia is wrestling with one of the nation’s highest overdose death rates amid a drug crisis that does not appear to be letting up.

Philadelphia Science Festival brings new perspective to Reading Terminal Market treats.

Tess — short for Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite — will spend two years searching for planets.

Living in Houston with flaring smokestacks in the distance stoked Carrie Feibel’s eco-anxieties. Still, she decided to have a kid... but just one.

Some companies offer you the chance to “erase” your carbon sins without making big changes to your lifestyle.

Here's what you learn when you put smelly socks in front of mosquitoes.