Health & Science

Next week, (Wednesday evening at the Union League in Philadelphia) the Geographical Society of Philadelphia will bestow its 128th Explo ...

Some environmentalists say food production needs a fundamental reboot, with crops that stay rooted in the soil for years, like Kernza, a prairie grass.

The FDA, accustomed to approving drugs and clearing medical devices, is now figuring out how to make sure computer algorithms are safe and effective.

The newly pictured supermassive black hole is a beast with no name, at least not an official one. And what happens next could be cosmically confusing.

An Indianapolis-based company has issued a recall for melon products sold in 16 states after being linked to a salmonella outbreak.

Philadelphia now sees more than 30 cases of hepatitis A a year, about five times more than just two years ago.

Gov. Phil Murphy on Friday signed legislation making New Jersey the seventh state to enact a law permitting terminally ill patients to seek life-ending medication.

Intense competitiveness — and the flip side of the coin, fear of failure — is part of the culture at medical school.

What she learned was, “It’s all about being in the moment and being OK with what is now.” That helped her manage her addiction and made her a better mom.

In science — and in life — failure is both a stumbling block and a building block. We regard failure as the enemy of success — but ...

The new measure requires insurers to cover mental health care to the same extent and degree as physical health, and expands the conditions that qualify.

There have been far fewer cases of the highly contagious respiratory disease in the Garden State, but health officials continue to promote vaccinations.

Some Allegheny County residents use a smartphone app to report foul smells in their communities, and a new version of that app is now available to the rest of the country.

Researchers may be closing in on a way to check athletes while they're alive for signs of a degenerative brain disease that's been linked to frequent head blows.

"Getting a direct view of a black hole is the ultimate dream for a lot of physicists," as astrophysicist Adam Frank wrote for NPR.