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A solar panel owned by the City of Philadelphia. (City of Philadelphia)
PlanPhilly
Science
PlanPhilly

Pa. grants $2M for solar tech at PGW’s liquefied natural gas plant

Philadelphia’s future LNG plant gets grant for solar panels. Environmentalists say that doesn’t make the fossil fuel project right.

6 years ago

In this Thursday, May 25, 2017 photo, an assembly line laborer works alongside a collaborative robot, left, on a chainsaw production line at the Stihl Inc. production plant in Virginia Beach, Va. (John Minchillo/AP Photo)
Science

Will robots take your jobs? Why this is such a hard question to answer

A new report says Philadelphia will do quite well compared to other places in the U.S. as more work gets automated.

6 years ago

Dr. Kamel Khalili in his lab at Temple; Dr. Howard Gendelman in Nebraska (Ed Cunicelli/Temple Hospital; University of Nebraska Medical Center)
Science
Billy Penn

How an Iranian immigrant and a Jewish Philly native joined forces to eliminate HIV in mice

The researchers, who met decades ago, share a lifelong passion to stop AIDS.

6 years ago

CEO Kevin Thompson and COO Naim Statham present their fleet of close to a hundred Verve E-scooters, stored at a former hamburger take-out restaurant located at the corner of Roosevelt Blvd and F Street, on June 15, 2019. (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Community
PlanPhilly

Philly natives enter the e-scooter wars with $100k homegrown startup, Verve S

Two Philly natives have invested $100,000 in dockless e-scooters. Now they just need their hometown and state to legalize them.

6 years ago

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For decades, inventors have tried to re-engineer the standard white cane used by people who are blind or visually impaired. But it's a tricky task. (Image courtesy of WeWALK/Kürşat Ceylan)
The Pulse
Science

Why is creating electronic canes for the blind so hard?

People who are visually impaired know what works for them and what doesn’t. They’d rather innovate their own technologies.

6 years ago

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The BIO International Convention drew thousands in the biotech industry from around the globe this week to the Pennsylvania Convention Center. (Brad Larrison for WHYY)
Science

Can Philadelphia be the next big biotech hub?

Tens of thousands of industry leaders came to the city this week for BIO, an international convention. Local boosters pitched Philly’s advantages.

6 years ago

ISA Principal architects Brian Phillips (right) and Deb Katz. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning
PlanPhilly

These Philly architects want to build a house in your alley

As architects seek ways to squeeze housing into crowded Philly neighborhoods, they are turning to what ISA principal Brian Phillips calls the “leftover lots.”

6 years ago

At Continuus Material Recovery in Northeast Philadelphia, machines sort through trash to find the plastic materials that are used to make fuel pellets. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Science

Could the future be built out of trash? A plan to turn plastic, paper into wallboard

Continuus Materials, a Texas-based company with a Northeast Philadelphia plant, will begin producing wallboard out of recycled flexible plastic and paper.

6 years ago

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Lifestyle
Billy Penn

Ugly fruits and veggies delivered to your door — stoop thieves be damned

Watch out, Philly. More ugly fruits and veggies are coming to town.

6 years ago

Chantel Williams exhales a puff of vapor from a Juul pen in Vancouver, Wash., Tuesday, April 16, 2019. (Craig Mitchelldyer/AP Photo)
Health

Juul nicotine hit may be ‘worst for kids, best for smokers’

The brainchild of two Stanford University design students, Juul launched in 2015 and quickly leapfrogged over its competitors.

6 years ago

FILE - In this Nov. 21, 2017, file photo Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor and robotics researcher Cynthia Breazeal reaches to touch social robot Jibo at the company's headquarters in Boston. When robots move like humans and talk like humans, even if only a little bit, it’s natural that we will treat them more like humans. (Steven Senne/AP Photo, File)
Science

Be wary of robot emotions; ‘simulated love is never love’

When a robot "dies," does it make you sad? For lots of people, the answer is "yes," and that tells us something important, and potentially worrisome.

6 years ago

The Wing company, a Google spinoff, has won federal approval to operate its drone delivery system as an airline in the U.S. (Wing)
NPR
Community

FAA certifies Google’s Wing drone delivery company to operate as an airline

By developing delivery drones — and a retail system that would connect customers with local merchants — Google's parent company is directly competing with Amazon.

6 years ago

Unknown number calling in the middle of the night. Phone call from stranger. Person holding mobile and smartphone in bedroom bed home late. Unexpected call woke up.
Radio Times
Lifestyle

Make the robocalls stop!

Chances are you retrieved one of the 26 billion robocalls made last year. We discuss robocalls, what's being done to stop them, and how to protect yourself.

Air Date: April 4, 2019 10:00 am

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3D Illustration of Human Cells (Bigstock/Usis)
Science

CHOP developing Pediatric Cell Atlas to better understand childhood health and disease

The atlas would map every cell in a child’s body and advance understanding of how and why pediatric diseases occur.

6 years ago

A team of researchers in Boston has developed an insulin-delivery system that injects the medicine directly into the stomach wall, which is painless. (Felice Frankel/MIT)
NPR
Health

An insulin-delivery system that's painless — and comes in pill form

A team of scientists from MIT have developed a system to deliver insulin that actually still uses a needle — but is so small you can swallow it and the injection doesn't hurt.

6 years ago

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