Jeremy Siegel of the Wharton School says the data infrastructure boom of the dot-com era is a useful analog to today's buildout.
Melissa Hunt of the School of Arts & Sciences says that millions of neurons send information from the gut to the brain.
New research from Penn has helped identify how major weight-loss drugs suppress “food noise” in the brain.
Cynthia Otto from the School of Veterinary Medicine says teaching dogs to voluntarily dunk their heads in water keeps them cool on hot days.
Philadelphia’s breakthroughs have come from outsiders, including 2023 Nobel Prize winners Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman of the Perelman School of Medicine.
Angela Duckworth of the School of Arts & Sciences says guiding children to activities they are interested in can help them find their passions.
Benjamin Lee of the School of Engineering and Applied Science says there’s a risk that data center energy costs are being distributed to the ratepayers and consumers in local communities.
Jeremy Siegel of the Wharton School says that the biggest risk with AI is whether the technology can be powered more cheaply than current scaling efforts.
Angela Duckworth of the School of Arts & Sciences says that effort is twice as important as talent for success.
A study by Casey Halpern of the Perelman School of Medicine finds that Eli Lilly’s GLP-1 weight-loss drug appears to temporarily suppress food-craving signals in the reward center of the brain.