Science

It seems that Kirk Johnson was training from a very early age to one day head the country’s largest and most comprehensive natural ...

A lot more than meets the eye goes into dioramas at natural history museums.

This Friday’s full moon is both the Harvest Moon and a penumbral eclipse. Penumbral means that the moon passes through the outer sh ...

In Philadelphia, and across the nation, owning a business remains something of a boys club. A first-of-its-kind survey from the ...

It turns out those lazy dog days of summer aren’t so lazy after all! Dave Heller and Dr. Derrick Pitts discuss the rotations and re ...

Atlantic science writer Ed Yong can’t look at an eleph ...

This week: Scientists have discovered another solar system member. Niku, a chunk of ice 124 miles in diameter, has been discovered out b ...

At a stylish shop in Brooklyn, a different kind of ‘sommelier’ guides tastings from a row of small bottles lined up on the co ...

SpaceX is planning an unmanned mission to Mars in 2018. NASA will partner with SpaceX providing ‘in-kind’ support so that the ...

The Perseid Meteor Shower peaks this week, although a waxing moon presents a challenge for late night observing. Mercury, Venus, J ...

A new possibility has arisen for giant black hole formation: Massive gas clouds in a galaxy may be able to collapse directly into a black ...

This month marks the 40th anniversary of the landing of the Viking spacecraft on Mars back in 1976. There were two landers about the size ...

As the messy process of democracy plays out in Philadelphia this week, some civic tech startups are showing off tools aimed at cleaning u ...

Sentient creatures on planets orbiting two stars enjoy a different perspective of the heavens above. Now astronomers have sighted a three ...

Commuters, and maybe a few visiting delegates, will get a sneak preview of SEPTA’s new electric buses during the Democratic Nationa ...