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The way we like to get clean is changing. In ancient Rome, people smeared themselves with pumice or ash to clean their bodies. The ...

Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney presented his budget proposal to City Council on Thursday. Among the usual spending areas, it contains heal ...

A Passion For Music Produced by: Karen Smyles The Philadelphia Youth Orchestra is the tri-state region’s ...

A huge misconception in the world of flatulence is that when you toot, your butt cheeks are to blame for the noise.  Not necessarily ...

Geneticists are beginning to track the influence of prenatal testing on the Down syndrome population.  When faced with the fa ...

Applications for medical marijuana grower/processors and dispensaries in Pennsylvania are being accepted until March 20. To date, ...

Karen Singer Tileworks Producer: Karen Smyles In her Germantown studio, Karen Singer creates just abo ...

These days, when you record yourself, even just using your phone, it’s high quality – so what you capture should be a pretty ...

Robots are great at doing a lot of things, but they have trouble interacting with the physical world. Roboticists in Pittsburgh ar ...

Ross Lockwood spent four months on top of a volcano in Hawaii. He lived in an inflatable dome the size of a two-bedroom apartment with fi ...

There’s been quite a buzz in the San Francisco Bay Area recently about something called ‘The Impossible Burger’. Imposs ...

Paul Santoleri AKA Pawzant Producer: Michael O’Reilly If you are a French-speaker and try to say Pa ...

Research suggests that bird brains are small but mighty, so don’t judge a brain by its size. Don’t judge a brain by it ...

Snow scientists at Montana State University are tracking risky decision making in the backcountry. The ski season began in Decembe ...

Many nursing homes try to replicate the feeling of home for the ...