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Philly is getting an Innovators Walk of Fame. Here’s the inaugural class

It ain’t no Hollywood Walk of Fame, but it’s a start. By late 2014, Philadelphia will have its own “Innovators W ...

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A rendering of the Spore charger. (Courtesy of Jason Browne)

Solar-powered battery charger takes top prize in Drexel incubator competition

Every year, Drexel’s Baiada Institute for Entrepreneurship puts on a competition. Startups launched by Drexel students and alu ...

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Kimberlee Sue Moran of the Center for Forensic Science Research & Education works at a dig site during a police training course. (Image courtesy of Moran)

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Rutgers instructor: During zombie apocalypse, you’d be fine

With Halloween coming up, an instructor at Rutgers-Camden has a survival guide for you — a zombie survival guide. Kimberlee Sue ...

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A structured brainstorming session will be held tonight at the offices of ad agency Allen & Gerritsen. (Photo courtesy of Allen & Gerritsen)

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Fixing Philly schools with 5 senses

Because scent can fix Philadelphia’s public schools. ...

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STEAMworkPHILLY's Dan Schimmel wearing the GhostFood device. (Zack Seward/WHYY)

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Meals from a climate-changed future: GhostFood

Imagine a future where cod, peanuts and, ...

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Brooklyn-based 3rd Ward is closing its coworking space in Olde Kensington after less than six months. (Nathaniel Hamilton/WHYY)

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Makerspace 3rd Ward unexpectedly closes

So much for all that: 3rd Ward — both the Brooklyn flagship and the newly opened Philadelphia location (which we ...

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Two new security features on the $100 bill are a holographic 3D ribbon sewn into the paper, and an inkwell that turns into a green bell in the light. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)

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A high-tech makeover for the new $100 bill

Starting today, there’s a new $100 bill. “The biggest difference between the old and the new is the 3-D security ribbo ...

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Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett (Matt Rourke/AP Photo, file)

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How Pa. startups are getting $75M more in state funding

With government budgets tight, Harrisburg is finding new ways to help Pennsylvania tech entrepreneurs — by borrowing against future tax ...

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Casey’s medical device tax ‘compromise’

A Pennsylvania Democrat wants Obamacare to stand, but also wants a key tax within it repealed. A vote Monday found U.S. Sen. Bob Casey ch ...

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Geoff DiMasi, P'unk Avenue principal, organized this week's Junto Retreat as a place for business leaders to talk about how to make a positive impact. (Photo Courtesy of of Kevin Monko)

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‘For profit, for good’: How ‘Junto 2013’ rallied local business leaders

“This is a business retreat, but maybe not the business retreat most people would imagine,” said ...

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How does the Affordable Care Act affect seniors with Medicare?

Question: How does the Affordable Care Act affect seniors with Medicare? Got questions about the Affordable Care Act? WHYY/Ne ...

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CHOP partners with VC fund to funnel revenue back into research

Commercializing research from the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia is nothing new. One of its biggest hits is a rotavirus v ...

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