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Hear what a ‘kinder slaughter’ sounds like. As farmer Jon McConaughy wades through his flock of 400 sheep, lambs bleat, seemin ...

Cured meat is a big food trend in the U.S. right now, but the meat isn’t cooked with heat, so it takes a bit of work to keep the sa ...

Scientists are creating meat without killing animals. Some people sink their teeth into a piece of juicy, bloody steak and enjoy e ...

Arun Prabhakaran’s family was not accepting of the white woman he intended to marry. Family tensions countinued for years, but thei ...

After breast cancer and chemotherapy, Rachell Goldberg has a modern take on the mikvah.   “This is my first time a ...

Drop-dead gorgeous plant kills big game in the Rocky Mountain West. The Japanese yew is beautiful and deadly. So deadly, land ...

After years of DIY trial and error, marijuana breeders are using science to validate the potency and purity of their cannabis. In ...

Ornithologists are getting research help from more than 360,000 people around the world who use the eBird app.

Kicking an addictive painkiller habit often requires prescriptions and counseling. By the time Elvis Rosado was 25, he was addicte ...

It seems just like yesterday that the gene editing tool called CRISPR Cas9 burst into the science community with seemingly endless option ...

Producer: Monica Rogozinski On November 24, 1827 a group of gentleman farmers, botanists and other plant enthusia ...

Jawanza Kobie wants to give kids what he got as a kid. Growing up in West Philadelphia in the 1950s and 60s, he was first turned onto jaz ...

Liz Hayden is white, and Chavis Patterson is African-American … but people don’t always know that unless he tells them. Th ...

Pregnant women, diabetics, and the elderly could be among the healthcare losers if the American Health Care Act passes the Senate. ...

The topic of dangerous buildings in Philadelphia took center stage during City Council Budget hearings on Monday.  Licenses a ...