Health & Science

Philadelphia and Conrail are starting work today on a plan to clean up a notorious stretch of tracks in the Kensington and Fairhill neigh ...

Cheap tribal cigarettes can complicate tobacco control on reservations. States and cities have come to understand that if they jac ...

It’s summer, and it’s hot. On this episode, we get stranded on an urban ‘heat island’ and learn what people are d ...

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Insurance coverage for health care in America needs reform, especially for those on Medicaid. With the American Health Care Act (AHCA) de ...

At some point or another we all confront some sort of pain. Pain is necessary. We need it to alert us that something is wrong, but when a ...

This is a great week to watch the development of lunar phases. Start watching on Monday night, with a barely visible 1.5-day old thin cre ...

A recent study estimates that 36 percent of U.S. workers suffer from work-related stress that costs businesses $30 billion a year in lost workdays.

Dominic Taraborrelli’s house on Tusculum Street faces ground zero of Philadelphia’s heroin epidemic. Weeds and bushes obscure ...

New Jersey has become the third state in the country to raise its smoking age to 21. Republican Gov. Chris Christie signed into la ...

On July 29th, 1958, President Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act and soon we sent men where only our imaginations h ...

How two space geeks imagine the future of trips to the stars. Rock climbing on Mars, playing baseball on the moon and skydiving th ...

For Chinese herbalist and acupuncturist Cara Frank, treating patients boils down to one thing: patterns. “We have a saying i ...

Blue, dark peach, bright red, orange — thermophilic organisms make the hot springs so colorful you’ll want to grab your selfie st ...

Wildfires can create atmosphere changes around them — making raging infernos even more unpredictable and dangerous. Western Wash ...