A Penn Medicine study found that pink noise, which is prescribed for people who have trouble sleeping, interferes with REM sleep and sleep recovery.

PIK Professor Dorothy Roberts of Penn Carey Law and the School of Arts & Sciences is spotlighted for her book “The Mixed Marriage Project.”

Julie Wollman of the Graduate School of Education comments on the future of financial aid for college studies.

Ethan Mollick of the Wharton School discusses Moltbook, a platform for AI agents to talk to other AI agents.

Speaking about AI, Chris Callison-Burch of the School of Engineering and Applied Science says, “The fact that you can interact with your computer in this totally new way and the fact that you can build anything, almost anything that you can imagine—it’s incredible.”

Penn Medicine researchers have discovered that lung cancer tumors in mice can use nerve endings to communicate way beyond their close vicinity and send signals to the brain through a complex neuroimmune circuit.

Alyssa Moran of the Perelman School of Medicine joins a discussion about ultra-processed foods.

Lynn Wu of the Wharton School says, “If you want to be at the forefront of AI, you have to learn how to use it efficiently.”

Scott Hensley of the Perelman School of Medicine says the rise in flu cases will climb in coming weeks.

A sleep study headed by Mathias Basner of the Perelman School of Medicine is spotlighted.