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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 ...

Federal regulators released a report that revealed just how close the city came to catastrophe after the Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery explosion in June.

Years after Mary Lee appeared, and following the brief blip of Miss May in July, there’s a new great white shark to track. His name is Shaw.

Cars have played a fundamental role in changing our modern lives — where we live, where we work, the shape of our communities, and how ...

Like clockwork, the monarch butterfly migration season along the Jersey Shore is heating up.

Derrick H. Pitts has been named one of the 50 Most Important Blacks in Research Science.

Saturn pulls ahead of Jupiter in the number of moons detected – current score: 82 to 79 Researchers recently announce ...

Agency blocks the 120-mile interstate project from obtaining crucial permits once more

A new report from the National Audubon Society says Pa.'s ruffed grouse and N.J.'s American goldfinch could disappear.

Every culture, workplace, group, and family has its norms — its standards, the way things are done. Norms govern everything from relati ...

Lobstermen and conservationists are finding common ground with ropeless fishing gear, but time is running out.