Health & Science

At Laurel Hill Cemetery in Northwest Philadelphia, it’s easy to overlook a couple of small patches of grass in the center of the s ...

In the Jewish tradition of shemira, the deceased are comforted until burial. This piece is part of our “Bodies” ...

Dr. Robert Ownbey, a pathologist who heads up the Hahnemann Hospital ...

Beyond the eight planets orbiting our sun… the next largest objects are the cohort of so-called Dwarf Planets. Tomorrow marks the 5 ...

The Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) just celebrated a milestone in its research on fusion energy. After nearly four years of r ...

The newest Kepler satellite data reveals startling information about frequency of earth-like planets – 3,200 planets now confirmed, ...

Astronomers may have discovered a way to ‘see’ dark matter using gravitational lens distortions to see perturbations in Einst ...

Next Sunday is Beltane or Bealtane, the cross-quarter day between spring and summer. Once upon a time, this was actually seen as 1st day ...

Launch vehicle provider (United Launch Alliance) and habitat provider (Bigelow Aerospace) announce alliance to launch a private space hab ...

Astronomy Night is this Friday evening at 30 locations across the city. Find locations at philasciencefestival.org. This festival runs fr ...

Researchers have known for some time that there’s a link between heart disease and depression. But – if the depression is tre ...

Quasar 3C 273, that’s what’s hot. – 18 trillion degrees F! One of the largest black holes ever seen is discovere ...

This Friday, a SpaceX supply mission will carry among other things, a 3,100 lb inflatable habitat test module built by Bigelow Aerospace. ...

Going to medical school is stressful – that’s not surprising But new research finds that the demands, cost, and competitive natur ...

Losing sleep over killer asteroids? A new system that takes 1000 images a night and can immediately determine if an object is close to ea ...