Philadelphia Science & Technology News

The new rules attempt to make more transparent corporate payments to bloggers, research firms and celebrities that help promote a product. "Given that social media has become such a significant player in the advertising area, we thought it was necessary...

A family has been awarded $2.5m (£1.6m) in damages after a jury in Philadelphia decided that the British-made antidepressant Seroxat was responsible for their three-year-old son's heart defects. GlaxoSmithKline , the British manufacturer of Seroxat, known as Paxil in the...

Federal prosecutors in Philadelphia have charged three men with diverting traffic from the Web site of telecom giant Comcast last year. Authorities on Thursday charged 19-year-old Christopher Allen Lewis of Newark, Del., 20-year-old James Robert Black, Jr., Tumwater, Wash., and...

Six ex-employees of a Philadelphia community group have been charged with forging checks to steal $375,000 designated for poor mothers and children. Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett said Wednesday the six worked for North Organized Regionally for Total Health Inc.,...

They are shades of the rainbow—blues, yellows, reds, and greens—arranged in a luminous pattern of imperfect rectangles...Or the tops of paintbrushes, one next to the other, dipped in multiple pots of color. Amazing to think that the glorious shapes in...

US doctors treating 12 patients with a rare genetic eye disorder were able to significantly improve vision in the youngest. The study, published in The Lancet, builds on work carried out by doctors at London's Moorfields Eye Hospital. The eye is...