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About 6% of American adults have a serious mental health condition. Dmitrii Marchenko/Moment Collection via Getty Images

Education

Philadelphians with mental illness want to work, pray, date and socialize...

Staff Writer - July 5, 2025

Mark Salzer, Temple University Do you remember the COVID-19 shutdowns? Many Americans could no longer do...

EXPLORING NATURE

As part of the Artemis II mission, humans will fly around the Moon for the first time in decades. Roberto Moiola/Sysaworld via Getty Images

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NASA’s Artemis II crewed mission to the Moon shows how US...

Staff Writer - January 27, 2026

Michelle L.D. Hanlon, University of Mississippi When Apollo 13 looped around the Moon in April 1970, more than 40...

Boston and much of the U.S. faced a cold winter blast in January 2026. Craig F. Walker/The Boston Globe via Getty Images

How the polar vortex and warm ocean are intensifying a major...

January 25, 2026

Smoke rises from Israeli airstrikes on southern Lebanese villages on Sept. 23, 2024. AP Photo / Hussein Malla

Lebanon’s orchards have been burnt, wildlife habitat destroyed by Israeli strikes...

January 22, 2026

The moment you look away from those adorable eyes, these mischievous creatures will sneak out of your lab. Joshua J. Cotten/Unsplash, CC BY-SA

Raccoons break into liquor stores, scale skyscrapers and pick locks –...

January 18, 2026

A Chinese visitor looks at condoms at the Beijing International Sex Supplies Exhibition. Zhang Peng/LightRocket via Getty Images

China’s new condom tax will prove no effective barrier to country’s...

January 15, 2026