physics

ERIE — With the hot, humid summer months expected to produce higher electric usage and potentially severe weather, Penelec, a FirstEnergy Corp. subsid...

The cause of a fire that destroyed a vacant house at 246 South Ave. Sunday afternoon remains under investigation. At 3:09 p.m. Sunday, the Bradford Ci...

RIDGWAY — The Elk County Amateur Radio Association (ECARA) has announced the following events for the remainder of the month. There will be a test ses...

AIR: Millions of Americans were urged to stay indoors last week as smoke from Canadian wildfires crept along the east coast, covering cities like New ...

The air is acrid and hazy from wildfires in Canada, while the ground is dry from a consistent lack of precipitation. Conditions are ripe for wildfires...

DUKE CENTER — With staggering defense behind Joe Tettis’s 12 strikeouts, the Elk County Catholic baseball team eliminated Otto-Eldred from the Distric...

ALTOONA — Residents across Pennsylvania now have access to higher speeds and greater capacity from Verizon’s 5G Ultra Wideband network. Verizon has re...

FULL MOON. Every month the nighttime sky is illuminated by a full moon — and each of these 12 full moons have their own designated names — May’s full ...

My wife and I moved from Philadelphia to the western suburbs of Chester County for many reasons. The move offered us the best of all worlds. We would ...

On feral farmland near Slippery Rock and Sarver, two private lakes quietly hold bass genetically linked to ancestors that were likely stocked there ge...

WELLSBORO — Despite a late-game surge, the Coudersport baseball team’s comeback effort was not enough as the Falcons fell to 3-4 with a 14-4 loss to W...

DENVER — The easiest thing to do would’ve been to take the victory lap, to live in the moment and soak up the celebration that ensued following the Pi...

California’s headlong rush to replace its electricity grid with renewable energy has given the rest of the country a preview of the decarbonized futur...

FDA commissioner Robert Califf said in an interview that aired this week that misinformation is killing Americans — contributing to the fact that our ...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Rookie Ji-Hwan Bae hit a game-ending three-run homer in the ninth inning, and the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Houston Astros 7-4 on ...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Buddy Robinson and Andres Athanasiou scored 26 seconds apart in the third period and the Chicago Blackhawks dealt the Pittsburgh Pen...

Climate change is making major league sluggers into even hotter hitters, sending an extra 50 or so home runs a year over the fences, a new study found...

NEW YORK (AP) — Dust off your eclipse glasses: It’s only a year until a total solar eclipse sweeps across North America. On April 8, 2024, the moon wi...

LOOK UP. Earlier in March, on a cold, clear night in Bradford the planets of Venus and Saturn shone very bright in the night sky and if you thought th...

More than half the solar system’s planets will align Monday in a rarely seen spectacle, arcing across a corner of the night sky. Mercury, Venus, Mars,...