Many of us have read news reports about elderly men and women, often suffering from dementia, who turn up missing after wandering away from home. It's a frightening occurrence that one State College company hopes to prevent in senior-care facilities.
Does it sound like it's possible to fly an airplane 200 miles without using any fossil fuels? Not only is it possible, but a Penn State-based team just won a national competition � and $1.35 million -- for doing just that.
Three Pennsylvania academics were among those chosen to receive Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers. The award is the government's highest honor for young scientists.
Closing a wound after surgery is far more complicated than just gluing all the leftover pieces back together. But now European doctors have a new tool for certain types of surgeries � a surgical glue developed by a Pittsburgh company.
While many American manufacturers have moved production overseas, south-central Pennsylvania farm equipment maker Pequea Machine is planning to produce more components in-house.
This month the Titusville Community Development Agencies opened a new section of a thriving city industrial park. The new section has about 55,000 square feet of building space and is targeted at heavy and light manufacturing.
College campuses are full of information students have to keep track of. Problem is, at most colleges finding this information means searching multiple websites. But OneSchool, a mobile app launched out of Penn State, fixes that.
Dry cleaners across the country are switching to more environmentally friendly laundering chemicals, but not all of them have benefited from the change as much as one business outside of Harrisburg.
For the last four years Anthony Linn has been developing his idea for Rent Wire, a business that would give private landlords the ability to handle more of their business online.
NorthStar Solutions Group, an IT consulting firm near Reading, provides services like building databases, redesigning websites and strengthening the security of computer systems. It's been ranked as one of the fastest-growing companies in America.