Health & Science

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 ...

When you look at your medical bill, are you confused about the charges? Do you not know where to start when you’re trying to figure ...

– A total solar eclipse is available to be seen – if you’re willing to travel . . . and if you’re willing to chan ...

One day everything changes. Getting a diagnosis of a lifelong illness changes the way we feel about our bodies, our lives and our death. ...

Meetings at The Jet Propulsion Lab last week indicate that a major reason why NASA is pursuing landing on Mars is to protect human existe ...

You may have noticed while walking through Philadelphia that certain spots are windier than others – so much so, that in a split second ...

Last week, we launched a new initiative with Clear Health Costs called WHYY PriceCheck to try to help create transparency around pricing ...

Clocks go forward one hour to Daylight Saving Time Sunday morning at 2 a.m. Day length is now 11h20m with sunrise at 6:32 and sunset at 5 ...