Remote-controlled cars and airplanes were a hobby of Nick Urban's when he was a boy. This summer he built a plane that's being used to map the landscape around a creek that flows into the Susquehanna River.
More than 300 20- and 30-somethings developed 500 ideas at this early-summer event, ranging from concrete and doable to big and transformative. Here are five big ones and a few more to ponder.
Inc. Magazine recently published its list of the 5,000 fastest-growing companies in the United States. Pennsylvania is home to 18 of the top 500 entries on the list.
At the turn of the millennium the founders of an Allentown information technology firm embraced an emerging concept called cloud computing. independenceIT was recently included on a trade publication's list of up-and-coming IT companies.
Pennsylvania scientists are studying a technique that's designed to put better armor on vehicles on the battlefield but could have other wide-ranging applications.
Startup Weekend 2.0 is coming to Philly and it's going to be bigger, faster and better with much more caffeine.
A new, high-tech cancer treatment facility is on track to open in northeast PA by next summer. The updated center under construction at the Pocono Medical Center's campus in East Stroudsburg will have 59,000 square feet of space when it's complete.
A researcher at The Commonwealth Medical College in Scranton helped discover a way to prevent a bacteria from a hospital-acquired infection from entering the human body and render it inactive it does infect a patient.
A salon, coffee shop, restaurant and bike advocacy group are among those highlighted by Greener Pittsburgh as making its city more sustainable.
UPMC anticipates mega hiring next year, nearly 1,900 new jobs, positions that range from medical professionals to administrators, administration and IT professionals.