Health & Science

Researchers say higher rates of past drug abuse by teens may have contributed to the increase of opioid addiction in adults — and the current overdose crisis.

We struggled to balance information and entertainment back in science TV shows to the '50s and '60s. In some ways, we still do.

Engineers are competing globally to invent a device that can ease water shortages.

Infants born to mothers who live very close to natural gas fracking sites have a higher risk of low birth weight, according to a new study published Wednesday.

Construction on the pipeline began in September. It's being built to carry Marcellus Shale gas from northeastern Pa. to markets along the East Coast.

The victim from New Castle County was a resident of a long term care facility and had multiple underlying health conditions.

The Keyser underground mine would produce metallurgical coal, which is used to make steel.

Biology students fearful that climbing costs could end cadaver studies have mobilized to support the program. But administrators say the activism is unnecessary.

The Philadelphia metropolitan area — including the suburbs — contains nearly three-quarters of a million people struggling with hunger, a 20 percent increase over six years.

There are multiple efforts underway at the federal, state, and regional levels to try to boost the nuclear power industry.

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A government watchdog will examine whether the head of the EPA misused taxpayer money by purchasing a soundproof booth for making private phone calls from his office.

The Geminid meteor shower peaks Wednesday and Thursday this week with upwards of 100 meteors per hour. The moon is a very thin wani ...

Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. claims Dimock resident Ray Kemble and his former lawyers tried to extort the company through a frivolous federal lawsuit.