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Carrie Fisher’s death at 60 came as a shock. Known as Princess (and later, General) Leia to generations of Star Wars fans, sh ...

Join us as we recap the top astronomy-related stories of 2016. 1. A potentially habitable planet was discovered orbiting the close ...

“Heroin has destroyed my life, and I don’t even use the stuff.” When I heard my mom’s friend say that, my ...

Disruptive technology is here to stay, but not all trades necessarily benefit from it. Psychotherapy is one such field.

December 25 marks Christmas Day and December mini-moon day! The moon was at apogee, or the greatest distance from Earth (for the month). ...

The Winter Solstice arrives on Wednesday at 5:44 am. It marks the northern hemisphere’s greatest axial tilt away from the sun, prod ...

About a year ago I interviewed a woman who volunteers at a church-sponsored soup kitchen in Center City. The essay, “ ...

With approximately one in 10 Americans having a problem with addiction, the odds are that someone at your holiday celebration this year struggles with substance abuse.

Astronomers at Yale University and University of Toronto have identified something very new over in the Coma Cluster of galaxies 300 ligh ...

It seems like everybody is singing the praises of mindfulness meditation these days – it’s used as a way to decrease stress, ...

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 ...