Physical Sciences News

Meet Philly’s supermaterial maker: Graphene Frontiers

April 16, 2015

Source: Technically Philly The company is mass producing graphene, a Nobel Prize-winning nanomaterial, in a “gamechanging” fashion. What’s thin, flexible, transparent, highly conductive, ten times more durable than diamond and won a Nobel Prize back in 2010? That’s right, we’re talking about graphene. Graphene Frontiers CEO Mike Patterson says that back in 2010, one square […]

I Spy With My Little Eye…Bryce Harper Holding a Chandler Bat on the Sports Illustrated Cover!!!

April 7, 2015

Source: The Big Lead Bryce Harper Is Very Jacked on the Sports Illustrated Baseball Preview Cover Bryce Harper and Max Scherzer adorn the cover of the Sports Illustrated baseball preview this year. More specifically, Bryce Harper’s Hulk Hogan-level left forearm graces one of the magazine’s four different regional covers — the Indians, Mariners and […]

Woop! Woop! Hurray for Solar Grid Storage!

March 17, 2015

Source: PR Newswire SunEdison Becomes First Renewable Energy Company To Offer Solar, Wind, And Energy Storage SunEdison Acquires Energy Storage Operating Projects, Pipeline, and Project Origination Team from Solar Grid Storage BELMONT, Calif. and PHILADELPHIA, March 5, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — SunEdison, Inc. (NYSE: SUNE), the world’s largest renewable energy development company, and Solar Grid Storage […]

Got an overabundance of chicken manure? We've got a company for that.

March 17, 2015

Source: Keystone Edge Philadelphia’s EnviroKure turns chicken waste into organic fertilizer The words “Philadelphia” and “agricultural products” don’t usually go together, but the growing company EnviroKure is making organic fertilizers near the city’s Tacony-Palmyra Bridge. “Agriculture is of course a major industry throughout Pennsylvania,” says company president and CEO Mark Lupke. “We located our pilot […]

One of our coolest alum was acquired over the weekend!

March 3, 2015

Source: PR Newswire Hot Tub Leader Watkins Manufacturing Corporation Acquires Aquatic Fitness Innovator Endless Pools, Inc. VISTA, Calif., Feb. 27, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Watkins Manufacturing Corporation, the world’s largest manufacturer of hot tubs, has acquired Endless Pools®, Inc. through its parent company, Masco Corporation. The acquisition allows Watkins to expand its line of personal well-being […]