Zack Seward

A charging station is displayed at the LA Auto Show in Los Angeles. (Jae C. Hong/Associated Press)

Build it and they will come? For electric-car charging stations, maybe not yet

They’re quiet, they’re green (or greener, anyway, depending on the power plant) and they’ll get you a rebate — but st ...

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Drive for UberX? Check your insurance, warns N.J. regulator

Ride-sharing service UberX wants to be your designated driver at the Jersey Shore this summer. The Christie administration is warning dri ...

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At the Franklin, a tour of ‘Your Brain’

Pondering how you ponder, with the help of the Franklin Institute’s brand-new brain exhibit. There’s a brand-new build ...

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Kids racing Shetland ponies, a first at the Devon Horse Show, Monday, May 26. (Photo courtesy of Jennifer Wood Media, Inc.)

At Devon Horse Show, elegance, ribbons, calories — and racing Shetlands, too

The Devon Horse Show has been around nearly 120 years. It’s both a prestigious equestrian competition and a “Country Fai ...

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Andrea Adleman rides one of Wash Cycle Laundry's special delivery trikes. The company is expanding to Washington, D.C., its second market. (Nathaniel Hamilton/for NewsWorks)

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City Hall send-off for Wash Cycle Laundry’s D.C. expansion

After three and a half years of lugging laundry by bike, Philadelphia’s Wash Cycle Laundry is expanding to Washington, D.C. ...

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American Certified only sells products made in the U.S. It currently offers more than 1.7 million American-made items for sale. (Nathaniel Hamilton/for NewsWorks)

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American Certified winnows U.S.-made products for e-shoppers

A new business in Philadelphia wants to make it much easier to “buy American” online. ...

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Offshore wind turbines are seen in this file image. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, file)

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Stalled NJ offshore wind project wins $47 million federal grant

A proposed offshore wind project in New Jersey has received a new breath of life. Fishermen’s Energy has won a $47 million g ...

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UberX enters South Jersey, but ride-sharing holdout Philly must wait

Uber’s low-cost ride-sharing service, UberX, is ...

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The look of the ChemCrafter app is inspired by vintage chemistry kits from the 1940s and '50s.

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A digital comeback for an old-fashioned science toy — just not here

A science non-profit’s new iPad app has created a small dose of international mystery. The Chemical Heritage Foundation want ...

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Yes, Pfizer wants to take over AstraZeneca

Pfizer confirmed Monday via press release that, yes, it is trying to gobble up fellow drugmaker AstraZeneca. Pfizer confirmed Mond ...

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Wharton expert: New FCC open-Internet rules won’t touch Comcast — for now

A new set of proposed open Internet rules from the head of the Federal Communications Commission could alter the way traffic flows online ...

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Job jitters over possible Pfizer takeover of AstraZeneca

A report out of London on Sunday put pharma company AstraZene ...

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