Health & Science

What is HOSPICE care really and is there an art to dying? Can death be the final act of living fully? Nina McKissock is an RN and writes ...

Astronomers use data from the Keck Telescope to identify the most distant object in the universe ever observed – it’s an eigh ...

Curiosity is the driving force behind creativity, innovation, and learning in general. It is something we’re all born with- but not ...

Last Thursday, after 11 years in space, NASA’s Messenger spacecraft made a scheduled crash onto the surface of Mercury, but not bef ...

Q: What is this project? A: Glad you asked. We’d like you to share your health care prices to help build this c ...

This Friday, May 1st is a cross-quarter day – halfway between the first day of spring and the first day of summer. It’s a day ...

Friday marks the 5th Annual city-wide Astronomy Night, which is the first event of the 2015 Philadelphia Science Festival. Commun ...

We know autism is affecting more families and as these children with autism grow up, they face new challenges. April is Autism Awareness ...

Four planets of our solar system have rings – Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune. Astronomers can now identify at least two non-pl ...

We understand physical ailments…. a broken leg or the flu need time to heal. But with diseases of the brain and mind, we lack the abil ...

In the Philadelphia region, the price of a colonoscopy appears to be all over the map, ranging anywhere from $800 to $8,000. That& ...

Newly discovered dwarf galaxies orbiting our Milky Way may offer opportunities to gain insight about so-called dark matter (the invisible ...

US 708 now holds the speed record for extragalactic stars: 2.7 million miles/hour! In this case it’s thought the velocity was provi ...

Tomorrow marks the 25th year of Hubble Space Telescope operations. It has provided hundreds of thousands of images, identified quasars, d ...

Originally broadcast April, 2013 – If you were to draw a Venn diagram of concepts associated with baseball and reli ...