Andrew Zaleski Kara Spiller with the BioBot inside Drexel University’s Biomaterials and Regenerative Medicine Laboratory. One question currently looms large in Kara Spiller‘s mind: How do broken bones manage to mend themselves perfectly, without leftover scars? Inside a Drexel University…

 Newsworks: Could app-based, texting therapy be the answer for Americans who need some type of professional help but can’t afford the costs? With Talkspace, it seems so, as Katie Hiler reports: “For $25 a week users can communicate with an…

Screenshot from OpenStates.org. Here’s something that ought to earn the Sunlight Foundation several shots of Pappy Van Winkle: a new open data tool that makes it easier than ever to have a look at the inner workings of Pennsylvania’s state…

Mark Stehle DroneCast founder ‘Raj’ Singh outside his company’s office. The startup attracted $1 million in investment funding last fall. Connor Gallic recently picked up an un­usual way to make ex­tra cash: Flying drones. Twice now the West Phil­a­del­phi­an has…

Technical.ly Philly: Since taking over as chief data officer, Tim Wisniewski has been assembling data inventories of City of Philadelphia departments, presenting the inventories to the public, and asking for comments on which data sets to release. Now it’s the…

Dawn McDougall was studying sustainable urbanism at Drexel University when she got her first taste of civic hacking. She walked into one of Code for Philly‘s weekly hack nights to find a roomful of people sitting behind computer screens working…

PlanPhilly: You’ll soon start seeing the historic PSFS sign in a new light. Reports Ashley Hahn: “On Friday the Philadelphia Historical Commission approved the conversion of the two PSFS signs that help define the city’s skyline to a Light Emitting…

Screenshot via Airbnb.com. A map of Airbnb listings in Philadelphia. Starting today, guests to Philadelphia who use the popular home-sharing service Airbnb to book a room will see an additional charge on their bills: an 8.5 percent tax, the same…

Marketplace: With two huge events on the horizon — the 2016 Democratic National Convention and this September’s Pope-adelphia — Philadelphia just became the biggest city to legalize Airbnb, the startup that allows Average Joes to rent out extra rooms in…