Inventions

Phantoscope

This early movie projector started a dispute between the Franklin Institute and Thomas Edison

Penn researchers invent super glue-strength adhesive with stickiness that can be reversed

Penn adhesive super glue

How a Temple student's near-death experience inspired a bicycle helmet that looks like a baseball cap

Rachel Hall Temple graduation

Philly woman leaves career as a civil-rights attorney to make jigsaw puzzles

Carroll - Puzzle So Hard

How did bulletproof backpacks become a sad necessity in gun-crazy America?

SafeShield

How a hands-free dog-walking device could save a family from losing their home

GearTAC

WATCH: Philly-area man's 'Shovelution' could save your achy back

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Philly design student creates working replica of bionic video-game arm

Robotic Arm

Temple researchers invent device to reduce calories in chocolate

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Morris Arboretum to host 2016 Steampunk Expo

NW Philly teen attends White House Science Fair

Learn how to turn ideas for inventions into realities

Free Library of Philadelphia

New Jersey and Delaware make list of top 10 most innovative states

Liberty Science Center

Gallery: Inside the home of Philly's mad scientist

Philly gay bar to house first sex toy vending machine

Sex Toy Vending Machine

Bursting Americans' infatuation with Bubble Wrap

Bubble Wrap

Pizza Hut box turns into a DIY-movie projector

Pizza Hut Movie Projector box

The music of nature

Nature and Music

Downingtown High West students develop flood tracking instrument

Downingtown Borough Hall

Philly native creates device that tells you where Obama is right now

Obama detector

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Center City expands Open Streets program to 20 car-free days this year

Open Streets

James Beard Foundation’s $200 chef tasting is coming to the Bellevue

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Stressed out by politics? You're not imagining it, and research shows that social media is largely to blame

Political Stress Social Media

Art in the Age's newest liquor is named after a famous Civil War horse

Old Baldy whiskey

5 Sixers thoughts: Life without Tyrese Maxey, ominous Eastern Conference outlook and more

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