For 300 years explorers and naturalists have reported another kind of firefly behavior, seen in the region stretching from ...

“We pay tribute to the people of the Post Office Transcontinental Air Mail Service, the greatest single step ever taken to make commercial aviation a practical day-and-night reality. Very much to the ...

The test subject that produced the first 3D magnetic resonance image was quiet and a bit hairy. Tough on the outside, the patient was a big softie at heart. It was also not human. Nobel Prize-winning ...

This glass fish was found in a fairly modest private house in Amarna, buried under a plaster floor along with a few other objects. It may once have contained ointment. The Trustees of the British ...

“A comprehensive study by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory vigorously urges that a $1-billion program be launched to develop a new automobile engine for introduction by 1985 or sooner. After observing ...

The mystery meat in school cafeterias is finally getting the rigorous investigation it deserves. An exhibit opening at the Science History Institute will consider the history of the school lunch.

We keep hearing that these are unprecedented times for science: scientific skeptics running federal agencies, growing mistrust of vaccines, and messaging from the highest levels of government that ...

Science history On Oct. 9, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell made a telephone call to his assistant a few miles away — the first demonstration of what would ultimately become a global telephone network.

An exhibit at Philadelphia's Science History Institute looks at food science through the lens of the school lunch program. (Emma Lee/WHYY) From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, ...

PHILADELPHIA, Pennyslvania (WPVI) -- In Old City, this exhibit is taking us back to school, and back in time. The Science History Institute's newest display discusses the history of lunchtime. "What ...