Science

Novel drugs may offer fresh ways to reduce heart risks beyond the usual medicines to lower cholesterol and blood pressure.

What works in policing high-crime areas, and what doesn't?

Philadelphia and other cities saw domestic violence reported more often, and repeat incidents reduced when more female officers were added to the force.

Police forces in democratic societies are supposed to safeguard the rights of citizens, and protect their lives and well-being. We think ...

Intimidation and police force enraged protesters in Hong Kong. Is there a different way to manage masses of people?

The early Jersey Shore beach birds were greeted by a visually stunning scene Wednesday morning.

N.J.'s piping plovers population increased by 19% in 2019, but researchers are cautiously optimistic about the threatened and endangered shorebird's long term prospects.

We look at things that are hard to measure and the different approaches that we take to get those measurements correct.

The first attempt in the United States to use a gene editing tool called CRISPR against cancer seems safe in the three patients who have had it so far.

Improvements in audio recorders, artificial intelligence, and data storage make sound a more powerful tool for ecology than ever before.

Blue crabs are a key species in aquatic life in the Delaware Bay. University of Delaware researchers will study how they’re affected by microplastics.

In the 1950’s, the CIA began a secret mind control program called MK-ULTRA and they hired chemist Sidney Gottlieb who was given free rein to experiment on unwitting subjects.

Pennsylvania’s ecosystem has already been permanently altered due to climate change, but it’s not too late to act before these changes become unmanageable, experts say.

The Gregorian system we all know is just pseudoscience and so random, says Tom Sherman. He’s out to disrupt it.

December 30, 2011 never happened in Samoa. The island nation in the South Pacific skipped this day, to move ahead into a different time z ...