Science

The invasive species known as the spotted lanternfly is spreading across Pennsylvania. 

More than 40 different projects in Pa., Del., N.J., and N.Y. will get a share of $11.5 million in new federal grants for work in the Delaware River Watershed.

The harvest moon is the last full moon of the summer. This year it will appear to be full for three days with peak illumination occurring at 7:54 p.m. ET Monday.

It’s one of the first questions we hear on detective shows after a heinous crime has occurred: “What’s the motive?” For hundreds ...

From the 1960s to the late ’80s, countless people got operations in the hope that could improve recidivism. But did it?

What's behind the decision of a quarter of Americans who haven't been vaccinated? And, with a shortage of ICU beds and ventilators in several states, who gets treated?

From fireproofing to alarms to stairway width, building codes cost lives at the Twin Towers. But in the aftermath, not that much has changed.

People are likely to be confused by common terms like "mitigation" and "carbon neutral," according to a recent study.

With the global pandemic still in the spotlight, more than 200 leading health journals say climate change is an even more urgent threat.

A New Zealand estate planning firm adopted a shorter workweek yet paid everyone the same. Could that experiment inform post-pandemic workplaces?

Energy fuels our lives in ways that seem almost magical. It can transform darkness into light, cold into warmth, water into ice. Of cours ...

Multiple projects are coming together to protect a key habitat for the Cumberland County oyster fleet from erosion and rising seas.

Dr. Walter Freeman performed lobotomies with an ice pick through the eye socket....and other stories about doctors who do evil scientific deeds in the name of medicine.

It’s not your imagination — but the bugs aren’t gone. They’re moving north.

The researchers believe that bats and humans both evolved babbling as a precursor to more complex vocal behavior such as singing, or, in the case of people, talking.