Health & Science

Space exploration is fraught with danger, as evidenced in the National Geographic series MARS. Reinforcing that message, the recent ESA/ ...

Thanksgiving has come and gone, and that launches us right into the holiday season madness. Shopping, decorat ...

A supercluster of galaxies was recently found lurking on just the other side of the Milky Way. Only 800 million light years out, it is si ...

Direct imaging of exoplanets is now possible – a new instrument on the 8m Subaru telescope in Hawaii is imaging exoplanets. T ...

Happy holidays. Tis the season for norovirus — a stomach ailment that can start with contaminated food. And nothing leaves a wor ...

When I heard that One Book One Philadelphia had chosen ...

I’m about to run my 100th marathon with cancer, and I’m delighted that I’ll be pounding it out here on the ...

On a beef ranch called Ledenevo, in the Bryansk region of Russia, about 300 miles southwest of Moscow, everything is brand new. The farm ...

With clear skies, the Leonid Meteors are available to be viewed from November 15 – 20, peaking on the 18th. The Leonids are typical ...

We can’t protect ourselves from catastrophic events, but what we can do is understand how it may affect us both physically and emotiona ...

Pa. coal production has slowed since the Marcellus Shale boom began, and concerns linger about the environmental impact of both. StateImp ...

Kids tend to be overscheduled and stressed out these days, and a slew of new parenting articles and books tal ...

360 years ago Tuesday (in 1656) Edmund Halley was born. Not only is Halley celebrated because of his namesake comet, the first whos ...

I should be a vegan. So should you. It’s better for your health, and better for the planet. And its kinder to animals too. So what’s ...

Clocks change back one hour to Standard Time on Sunday. The moon is one day old on the 31st; not the best for Hallowe’en, but ...