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PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Earlier this month, a Pitt professor of neurological surgery celebrated with his team as their research cleared a major hurdle: FDA...

America’s approach to health care is an outlier among the world’s rich countries, and not in a good way. Extraordinarily complex and hideously expensi...

NEW YORK (TNS) — Before we have an anti-aging drug for humans, we’re likely to have one for dogs. Multiple clinical trials are currently underway to t...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Science is catching up with the spotted lanternfly as researchers experiment with parasitic wasps, vibrating traps and other strate...

University of Pittsburgh at Bradford senior Alexandra Asp and Associate Professor of Psychology Dr. Rebecca McHugh have been researching how witnessin...

HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) is seeking the public’s feedback on winter services through an online survey. “Th...

NEW YORK (TNS) — When the Biden administration paused approval of new liquefied natural gas export licenses in January, the decision was driven by a r...

When players sign with the Steelers in free agency, they almost always speak reverently about joining a prestigious organization, one of the most stor...

(TNS) — Developing new drugs has involved animal testing since Aristotle, but the University of Pittsburgh is taking a lead in changing all that. The ...

E&M Engineers and Surveyors PC announced its 18th annual scholarship, the Frederick J. Moricca III Memorial Scholarship. Moricca was a licensed land s...

NEW YORK (TNS) — The field of cancer biology is a mess. Signs of trouble emerged years before the most recent scandal, in which investigators found ev...

UNIVERSITY PARK — Spicy food lovers know that milk can ease the oral burn, but why? Some believe that fat is the soother, with whole cow’s milk reduci...

Few issues in Pennsylvania have united Republicans and Democrats over the years like the prospect of ensuring that our youngest learners are ready to ...

NEW YORK (TNS) — What does it mean that scientists found 240,000 million nanoparticles of plastic in a typical bottle of water? The number is big and ...

You’ve heard of an armchair quarterback, but how about a citizen scientist? In the connected world we live in, the citizen scientist is becoming ever ...

UNIVERSITY PARK — Honey yields in the U.S. have been declining since the 1990s, with honey producers and scientists unsure why, but a new study by Pen...

This summer, volunteers trained at Moraine State Park to collect samples of potential algae blooms and assess erosion in streams in Allegheny County p...

This summer, volunteers trained at Moraine State Park to collect samples of potential algae blooms and assess erosion in streams in Allegheny County p...

(TNS) — Artificial intelligence can now run science experiments with a few simple prompts from researchers, saving them time and speeding the pace of ...

DECORATIONS: Now that all the shopping is finished and the presents neatly wra — OK, just pretend that’s all done. Then take a ride to see what there ...