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Local hoops fans are still waiting to see what moves the Sixers will make to get a player they hope will define their franchise for years ...

New research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association compares standard 2D mammography to 3D mammography. Two ...

A Philadelphia design firm is using a card game to spark difficult conversations about death that don’t lose focus on living. ...

Finding a job can be challenging even under the best of circumstances. Add dropping out of school and homelessness to the mix, and the od ...

Environmental scientists are looking for help locating the Elaphrus beetle, a type of ‘indicator speci ...

Tiny popping sounds are a roaster’s secret road map. Do you have a Pavlovian response to the sound of coffee beans being gro ...

WHYY’s expanding news service now includes this week’s launch of Keystone Crossroads: Rust or Revival, exploring the urgent c ...

Close to 40,000 Americans commit suicide every year, and that rate has been rising in the past decade, with an especially sharp increase ...

Art of Life — Produced by Karen Smyles Philadelphia Bronze started as Mainline Ringers in 2008 as a result of a community of r ...

Summertime, and the livng is easy for many of us. But it’s the time of year when the pace picks up for some types of work, includin ...

A new report from the New England Center for Investigative Reporting suggests that many labs offering Lyme tests haven’t proved tha ...

Hospitals around the country are struggling with a shortage of one of their most relied upon fluids. Reid Kennedy walks through th ...

South Philly’s Ibrahim Bakri’s biology class works to determine how household food items affect fruit fly cell proliferation. ...

Philly health officials want you to cut the salt—most of us anyway. The city’s new sodium-reduction ...

It’s sandal weather, the pool and beach beckon — and that means naked, exposed toes. That thought fills millions of Americans wit ...