Health & Science

Crumbs may seem harmless here on Earth, but they can be a hazard in microgravity — they could get in an astronaut’s eye, or get i ...

In 1973, a communication snafu between astronauts in space and their colleagues on Earth, alerted NASA to the need for people skills and ...

Physicists and engineers in New Jersey are working on a power source that can take humans far out into our solar system. We have l ...

Some rape victims have to travel hours to get an exam from a nurse with special training and forensic expertise. Debbie Holbrook s ...

Guests: Katie Meyer, Sarah Karlin-Smith, Robert Field For the second year in a row, Governor Tom Wolf allowed an ...

Gov. Chris Christie wants to transfer responsibility for New Jersey’s four state psychiatric hospitals, community-based mental health a ...

Philadelphia is starting a new push to improve the health of impoverished children.  For now — it will rely on reshuffling existing re ...

A massive dune building project by the Army Corps of Engineers, one which Margate didn’t want to go ahead at all, is underway on Ma ...

I told myself that as long as I maintained that appearance, the rotten blackness steadily devouring me from within was under control and would eventually recede.

When schools and offices take vacation — people do too — blood donations slow down, leaving hospitals and blood banks to hustle for b ...

Millions of Americans suffer with depression – and traditional medications used to treat the illness are expensive, and can have a ...

On this date in July 1997, NASA placed the first rover on Mars. Sojourner was followed by Spirit and Opportunity, then Curiosity. It was ...

Work to clean up the notorious heroin encampment at the Conrail tracks in Kensington has encountered a delay. Conrail workers were ...

There’s a body of opinion that believes that laughter might, for some illnesses, be the best medicine.