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Brianna Wu has been outspoken about sexism in male-dominated video game culture. Brianna Wu has loved video games ever since she w ...

The celebrated novel ‘Their Eyes Were Watching God’ grew from fieldwork in the Black South. Before novelist Zora Neale ...

The flame is burning a little less brightly for the iconic Zippo lighter. Manufactured since 1933 in Bradford, Pennsylvania, the company ...

Amin knew he wanted to work in medicine from an early age. He recalled how growing up in Iran, he’d watch his dad experience seizur ...

Produced by: Monica Rogozinski Chef Konstantinos Pitsillides came to the US, landing in Philadelphia, after living ...

In healthy people, earwax is self-cleaning. “It’s a useful thing,” says Fuad Baroody, an ear, nose, and throat s ...

It’s difficult to gross out David Rivers, a professor of biology at Loyola University Maryland. He’s a forensic entomologist, ...

People migrate for many different reasons – war, persecution, poverty. Here’s another reason: climate change. A 2015 ...

Conservationists are worried about stopping non-human traffic at the border. The U.S./Mexico border region is one of the most dive ...

For four years now, the pediatric wing at Einstein Medical Center in North Philadelphia has blocked off Thursday mornings to meet with re ...

Anti-gay prejudice is written into Jamaican law. A colonial-era rule criminalizes male intercourse and LGBT activists say talk of jail ti ...

Hint: It offered a slight chance of rebooting his damaged immune system.  About ten years ago, ...

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 ...