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True tone deafness, or congenital amusia, is relatively rare. It’s a disorder in which people are unable to tell one note from anot ...

Say “Renaissance music” and you might think of players stuck in time, rehashing works unchanged in 500 years. But when you ta ...

Wednesday’s news from the Federal Reserve about interest rates signals the institution’s slowly rising confidence in the econ ...

Doctors are certainly used to bringing up uncomfortable topics – they ask us about all kinds of very private things; sex, drugs, an ...

Sometimes in the field of citizen science, scientific instruments can start to look a little like that science fair project you did back ...

It was Christmas 2012, and Michael Knight was a medical intern at a hospital in New York City.  “While everyone else wa ...

Big research institutions and pharma companies are failing to report study results, even though they are required to do so, according to ...

Producer: Monica Rogozinski COOK is Philadelphia ...

While world leaders are in Paris discussing ways to limit future green house gas emissions, others are thinking about what they can do to ...

Max Major looks more like a European soccer star than a magician, with his lean, athletic physique and stylish hairdo – somewhere b ...

NewsWorks Tonight is looking at the legacy of ougoing Mayor Michael Nutter. Philadelphia’s 99th mayor, Jim Kenney, will be i ...

In the early part of the American nation, science and art were brothers born to the mother of necessity. Charles Wilson Peale was ...

About five years ago, Dr. Travis Baggett was working as a primary care physician at a homeless shelter for people with mental illness. ...

Visitors to the climate change talks in Paris learned about cutting-edge, low-carbon tech solutions at a side exhibition called the ̶ ...

While New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie lags in national polls, his presidential bid appears to be gaining traction in New Hampshire, which ...