Health & Science

The University of Pennsylvania announced that the vast majority of undergraduate classes will be online, with some exceptions like clinical rotations for nursing students.

The best viewing is from a dark location, like a secluded beach, between a few hours before midnight and dawn, according to earthsky.org.

Jeff Tittel, director of the New Jersey Sierra Club, said the larvae were likely pushed to New Jersey from Florida by Tropical Storm Isaias.

President Trump falsely claimed that children are “almost immune” from the coronavirus, but a new review of state data finds child cases are up 40%.

The countries with the most infections are the U.S., India and Brazil. Russia has the fourth most.

The company that owns Three Mile Island’s Unit 1 reactor will scale back its emergency planning starting in January.

The Department of Conservation and Natural Resources has posted an “overcrowding alert" saying some parks have been turning people away and closing overflow parking.

A review by the Kaiser Health News service and AP finds at least 48 state and local public health leaders have resigned, retired or been fired since April across 23 states.

The vaccine developed by the Plymouth Meeting firm and Wistar Institute researchers finished Phase I trials and is moving to an accelerated Phase II/III.

Contact tracing is key to keeping a community's positivity rate below 1.

The milestone was reached as new cases run at about 54,000 a day. Cases are rising in nearly 20 states, and deaths are climbing in most.

Reopening schools is easy. Keeping them open will be the hard part.

An overwhelming majority of Americans say houses of worship should abide by the same restrictions on public gatherings that apply to other institutions.

Labor advocates say the lack of enforceable federal standards to ward off the coronavirus allows farmers to prioritize the harvest over worker safety.

When it comes to the new rules for the novel coronavirus, airlines like Delta are taking them very seriously.