Health & Science

Some of us are fortunate to have good neighbors. They’re the folks we chat with, invite over, borrow a cup of sugar from, and do f ...

NASA plans to send a three-year orbital mission to Jupiter’s moon Europa as early as 2022. It’s at the top of the list of mos ...

500,000 quasars (quasi-stellar radio sources) have been detected – including 100 binaries, two triples, and now – one quad. A ...

Female soldiers are returning from deployment in record numbers, according to Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of ...

The dwarf planet Pluto will be visited by New Horizons this summer, with the closest approach scheduled for June 14th. This complet ...

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 ...