Science

Imagine this: A pesky mosquito sips some of your blood. Hours later, the blood-sucker drops dead, poisoned by the very blood it just slurped down.

Professor Andrew Norris is creating ways to make sound waves go around underwater objects, instead of bouncing back.

For houses vulnerable to flooding, elevation can be a solution. But how do you raise a home that’s connected to others?

Party affiliation and political ideology continue to play a big role in people’s views.

Marianne Atkinson of Brady Township said her family’s water well is 900 feet from the proposed injection site.

The $1.3 trillion spending bill signed by President Donald Trump on Friday unexpectedly brought good news for environmentalists.

Emission tests are required in 25 of Pennsylvania’s 67 counties.

“States that levy a natural gas severance tax allow those costs to be treated like a post-production cost,” IFO director Matthew Knittel wrote.

In New Jersey, there’s a bail algorithm designed to recommend whether you sit behind bars or walk free until your trial. The state’s court system recently abandoned cash bail.

They argue that longwall mining, the technique Consol would use to mine beneath the stream, can cause ground beneath streams to fall in.

Join StateImpact Pennsylvania for an educational forum to learn how other states handle natural gas royalty payments and what’s being done about the controversy.

Philadelphia Energy Solutions is meeting more resistance to its plan to reorganize while in Chapter 11 bankruptcy.