Science

Our region reached the maximum hours of daylight for the year yesterday. We lose two seconds today; a minute by the end of the week, and ...

A Bucks County company is rolling out a first-of-its-kind mobile testing laboratory designed to monitor the spread of disease. Flo ...

If we lived on a planet that orbited a lone star outside of a galaxy, a starless night sky would be possible. Now astronomers have discov ...

The Delaware Valley’s startup sector is growing, but still lags far behind heavyweights Silicon Valley and New York in overall acti ...

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is closing in on Pluto. Ahead of the July 14th close approach; astronomers recently learned more abo ...

The country’s oldest and largest urban research park is about to get even bigger. University City Science Center has announc ...

NASA plans to send a three-year orbital mission to Jupiter’s moon Europa as early as 2022. It’s at the top of the list of mos ...

500,000 quasars (quasi-stellar radio sources) have been detected – including 100 binaries, two triples, and now – one quad. A ...

The dwarf planet Pluto will be visited by New Horizons this summer, with the closest approach scheduled for June 14th. This complet ...

Astronomers use data from the Keck Telescope to identify the most distant object in the universe ever observed – it’s an eigh ...

Last Thursday, after 11 years in space, NASA’s Messenger spacecraft made a scheduled crash onto the surface of Mercury, but not bef ...

This Friday, May 1st is a cross-quarter day – halfway between the first day of spring and the first day of summer. It’s a day ...

Candidates for mayor of Philadelphia are promising four more years of open, data-driven governance. Speaking to a crowd at Philly ...

Friday marks the 5th Annual city-wide Astronomy Night, which is the first event of the 2015 Philadelphia Science Festival. Commun ...

The University of Pennsylvania is rebooting one of its most tradition-bound departments. The recently announced Price Lab for the ...