Science

PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — A free STEM workshop in Hunting Park on Saturday is geared towards helping students learn more about opportunities in the field. "I am really hoping to demystify what STEM is," said Isobel Dewey, director of STEM at Simon Gratz Mastery Charter High School. She says...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation's top medical advisers say medicines proven to treat opioid addiction remain vastly underused in the U.S. The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine released a report Wednesday that found only a fraction of the estimated 2 million Americans addicted to...

PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) -- A program at the Franklin Institute Saturday afternoon aimed to promote diversity in the many fields of science. Nine ethnic professionals in the field of science had booths throughout the Franklin Institute where they could show what it is they do. Michael Burch,...

LOWER MERION TOWNSHIP, Pa. (KYW Newsradio) — A Harriton High School student takes home second-place in a national science and math competition along with a $175,000 prize. Samuel Weissman is 17 and about to graduate high school in three years. He got second place out of thousands of entries in the...

PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — Hundreds of Philadelphia school students were recognized for their efforts in science at the 40th annual Carver Science Fair awards ceremony at the Museum of Natural History. Carver Science Fair participants who presented their projects last week, listened eagerly at...

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) -- After sitting untouched in storage for nearly 50 years, lunar samples collected during the Apollo 15, 16 and 17 missions will be studied for the first time, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced Monday. The announcement came during Bridenstine's discussion...

By: Matthew Robinson (CNN) -- NASA has captured groundbreaking images of shockwaves from supersonic aircraft, the space agency said, as part of efforts to create a jet that flies faster than the speed of sound without producing sonic boom. Using newly upgraded air-to-air photographic technology...

By Lauren Landrum (CNN) -- Does math give you trouble? Here's some encouragement: Despite their miniature brains, a new study says honeybees can learn basic arithmetic. If they can do it, so can you! According to a study published this week in Science Advances , scientists at RMIT University in...

PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — Baking and science sound like a great day in the classroom, but adults are now joining in on the fun, too. Local teacher Amira Abdul-Wakeel has been reaching out to adults for her Baking With Science class , which will take place Saturday at The Dorrance H. Hamilton...

KYW’s Medical Reports are sponsored by Independence Blue Cross. By Dr. Brian McDonough, Medical Editor PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — Have you ever been in a situation where you were asked to hold something, temporarily impeding the use of your hands, but you developed an itch that needs to be...