Science

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 ...

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

Black applicants to a prestigious research grant program at the National Institutes of Health are awarded funding at a significantly lower rate than their white peers.

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.

Walgreens is testing out delivery from store to door by drone in Virginia, and UPS won approval to expand air delivery of medical supplies.

Dairy farmers can go to this online catalog and pick a bull, and the company will ship doses of semen to impregnate their cows.

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.

Only 15 women have participated in spacewalks, and all were accompanied by men.

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