science
The “Supermoon” Lunar Eclipse Is Coming!
Don’t fritter your iPhone battery tweeting away during Sunday afternoon’s papal Mass or the Eagles game against the Jets; you’ll need it to capture the […]
9 Things Derrick Pitts Says You Need to Know About Those Pluto Pics
Last week, when NASA’s New Horizons mission sent over the first high-resolution images of Pluto, the world got very interested in what they meant, and why […]
Sixers Hire Scientist to Head Performance R&D Department
The Sixers have hired a scientist. Today, the 76ers announced the team had hired Dr. David T. Martin, a doctor who has worked in Australian […]
Autism and Vaccines, Earthquakes and Malaysian Mountain Spirits
It isn’t often that I laugh out loud while reading the staid New York Times, but I did last Thursday as I perused a story […]
Penn Researcher Identifies New Dinosaur
A University of Pennsylvania doctoral researcher has identified a previously unknown species of dinosaur — a member of the velociraptor family that was probably particularly […]
Academy of Natural Sciences Announces Dates for Academy Explorers Camp
You’d never know it by stepping outdoors, but warmer weather is slowly inching its way toward us, which means parents better be getting on the […]
Researchers Say Same-Sex Couples May Soon Be Able to Produce Biological Children Together
Well this is a game-changer if I ever heard one: Scientists say that same-sex couples may soon be able to produce biological children together. Researchers […]
WATCH: Bill Nye Explain the Theory of Evolution Using Emojis
Bill Nye the Science Guy is just as cool and relevant as when you watched him on TV as a kid. Who else could explain […]
Find out the Physics of the Perfect French Fry
Who doesn’t love a good French fry? But what exactly makes the perfect French fry, according to science? To me, the perfect French fry is one […]
World’s Largest Snake Coming to Academy of Natural Sciences
Close your ears, ophidiophobiacs. Titanoboa, also known as the largest snake that ever slithered around the planet, is coming to Philadelphia next February. The Smithsonian traveling exhibit […]
Drexel Scientists Discover Largest Dinosaur Ever
In a paper published Thursday in Scientific Reports, Drexel scientists announced the discovery of the largest animal ever found: Dreadnoughtus schrani, a supermassive dinosaur that […]
UPenn Study: Pot Might Be What’s Screwing Up Your Sleep
On Wednesday afternoon at the SLEEP 2014 conference in Minneapolis, University of Pennsylvania psychiatrist and sleep specialist Dr. Michael Grandner presented findings from his recent […]
Science Finds a “Stupid” Gene. What Should We Do With That Information?
Linguist/philosopher and Philly native son Noam Chomsky once postulated that the current era of human history might “provide an answer to the question of whether […]
Meet the Philly Start-Ups Leading the Entrepreneurship Era
Something big is happening. It’s not obvious, and it’s nothing tactile—but it’s most definitely a shift in the way we normally do things around here. […]
West Philly’s Quest for the Automotive X Prize
The bell rang at 3 p.m. Kids burst from their second-floor classrooms at the West Philadelphia High School Academy for Automotive and Mechanical Engineering and […]