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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 ...

Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE inventors built a 21st-century medical device that can diagnose dozens of diseases from the palm of your hand.< ...

Just as the clothes we wear and the restaurants we visit follow trends, the illicit drugs we ingest cycle in and out of fashion. I ...

Alex Spencer has earned thousands of dollars as a research subject. “That vein right here on the left side of my left arm ha ...

Climate scientist Ben Horton came from England to work in the United States because of the strength of the science here. Now, he’s ...

Once a month, 40 or so executive types break from their regular routines to meet up for the day. There’s schmoozing, a catered lunc ...