Explainers

Columnist Tom Friedman notes in his opinion piece in Wednesday’s ...

There’s an unnerving, specific kind of dream — a nightmare, really — that can happe ...

A childhood pyromaniac grows up, becomes a chemist and makes sparks fly in the lab. Matt Cline, 43, is a chemical engineering lab ...

When watching these birds move, it looks like they're one giant organism with a centralized brain. But an ornithologist explains it's not one brain so much as one thought.

Half the money and none of the respect, a first-year resident says no wonder new doctors aren’t choosing to be generalists. ...

This year marks two decades since a Democratic president signed a Republican-sponsored bill that revamped the nation’s welfare syst ...

This story is from The Pulse, a weekly health and scie ...

Act 1 is a property tax relief bill passed by the Pennsylvania legislature in 2006 and amended in 2011. ...

The district’s budget for the 2014-15 school year is roughly $2.6 billion. The SRC and Superintendent William Hite h ...

The day before the deadline in mid-June, the commission said they needed more time to come up with recommendations for a new formula to d ...

Too often we hear school officials, experts, advocates, and yes, even journalists throw around terms like “block grants” and ...

For years, many public education advocates have been howling about the way Pennsylvania funds cyber charter schools. ...

Millage is a relatively obscure term that represents the tax rate levied on real estate or other property. A mill is one thous ...

How much do Pa. teachers make? A lot, relatively speaking. The average starting salary for a teacher in Pennsyl ...

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