Inventing the Future : Featured Stories

We've got your insider's guide to the annual tech smorgasbord. Whether you're a programmer, designer, gamer or simply tech-curious, there's an event for you.

The Porch at 30th Street Station sparked the effort to makeover a key stretch of Market Street. In a few short years, this vital University City corridor will be denser, more vibrant and increasingly pedestrian-friendly.

Local scientists are delving into the surprisingly mysterious world of taste and smell, hoping to unlock the keys to managing obesity, detecting disease, tracking genetic traits and managing trauma.

Local scientists from Penn Medicine and Adaptimmune are at the forefront of research into T-Cell immunotherapy, a treatment that could potentially cure some types of cancer.

Thanks to an Updated Master Plan, Drexel aims to spend half a billion dollars on development in the coming years, urbanizing and greening their campus. University City will never be the same again.

NextFab Studio, Philly's open-to-all high-tech workshop, has new digs packed with 3-D printers, industrial textile machines, revolutionary software and much more.

Want to be able to roll up a tablet computer and slip it into your pocket? Graphene, a marvelous new carbon material being developed by local entrepreneurs, could turn sci-fi into reality.

Imagine if testing for tainted food was as simple as checking a handheld device. Local innovators Invisible Sentinel are making that happen, and saving lives in the process.

Flying Kite helps celebrate 50 years of 'Inventing the Future' at the University City Science Center.