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What kind of promise does 3D organ printing hold for our future?  Bioengineer Jordan Miller loves the mechanical whir of his ...

A group of citizen scientists are measuring local ice in hopes of contributing to a bigger understanding of climate change. Concer ...

You think your dog is talented? Check out these dogs training for jobs in search and rescue, bomb sniffing and cancer detection.  ...

Meet one of the fosters behind the Penn Vet Working Dog Center in Philadelphia.  Ohlin is a beautiful, 16-month-old chocolate ...

Art — Produced by Michael O’Reilly The Wagner Institute of Free Science ha ...

A childhood bout with polio propelled Art Caplan into his career as the nation’s pre-eminent medical ethicist.   First in ...

What if something hailed as a ‘cure for cancer’ got caught up in a legal battle among some of the biggest names in cancer tre ...

Four years after an uproar over revamped mammography guidelines, women’s breast screening choices remain complex.  Back ...

If walls could talk: One building’s story about a crisis that almost wiped out all of Philadelphia. If you’ve flown in ...

A new report from the Natural Resources Defense Council evaluates cities on their support of green infrastructure in the commercial secto ...

In this week’s Patient Files, 25-year-old Scott Clifford talks about living with Osteogenesis Imperfecta, or brittle bone disease.< ...

Len Webb learns about an insect’s role in society while snacking on stir-fried crickets in this So, What Do You Do? segment. < ...

The lens of history is needed for fuller perspective on America’s longest military engagement. But the toll taken after a decade of ...

The Scientist’s Kerry Grens tells us about the rotting teeth of hunter-gatherers and new research linking fiber to reduced asthma r ...

A pilot program in Philadelphia is providing patients with the unique care they want when living with a life-threatening illness.  ...