Science

Sound designers have a bag of acoustic “scares” to frighten and unnerve an audience.

If it seems as if summers are getting hotter, they are — at least from the perspective of more days when people are exposed to extreme ...

A Greene County coal ash landfill won’t be receiving any more coal waste until December, at the earliest.

We begin with the story of Spitz Laboratories, based in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. In the 1960s, the space race kicked off a nationwide s ...

A new study suggests that African-American women are more likely to suffer from Peripartum Cardiomyopathy and are more likely to worsen before getting better.

What we eat and how we feed ourselves is inherently cultural and political in nature.

Shark fin is the main ingredient in a much-prized soup. Fishermen commonly cut off the fins and throw the rest of the shark overboard to drown.

Farming is the second-whitest job in the United States.

Al Gore says he’s optimistic the U.S. will break its political standoff over climate change, and that the U.S. is “not that far” from a bipartisan consensus on climate change.

Chemical company, Croda, said its Delaware plant can now make a key chemical bonding agent from 100 percent renewable resources.

An island colony of wild rhesus macaque monkeys — the oldest primate research site in the world — suffered major storm damage, but no deaths.

Gore’s presentation was part of his Climate Reality Project, which the former vice president and Nobel laureate founded 10 years ago.

Nearly 30 people were arrested and charged with defiant trespassing Monday after blocking construction equipment for the Atlantic Sunrise natural gas pipeline in Lancaster Co.

This Saturday marks the 94th anniversary of the first public planetarium show given at the German model for The Franklin Institute, the D ...