Science

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.

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 ...

Scientists have released the most detailed look yet at how the U.S. government helps residents retreat from flood-prone areas. Climate change is making such questions urgent.

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

This year, with the cost of solar power falling sharply, Penn State signed a deal to buy electricity from a new 500-acre solar farm in Pennsylvania's Franklin County.

A study finds that tuna harvests have increased by an astonishing 1,000% in the last 60 years — a rate some scientists warn is unsustainable.

There was a time when seeing was believing — but that’s changing, thanks to new technology that’s elevating fakery to a whole new l ...

Machine learning is democratizing special effects — and that might be a bad thing.

So much ethane is coming out of the ground in Pennsylvania, and other drilling hot spots around the country, that chemical plants in the U.S. can’t use it all.