Benjamin Keys of the Wharton School discusses the risks and pressures on home insurers nationwide, saying insurers want to make a profit.

Holly Fernandez Lynch of the Perelman School of Medicine is quoted on the unique challenges of designing effective studies with psychedelic drugs, including participants knowing if they've been given a placebo or not.

A collaborative study including researchers with the Penn Museum is referenced, in which the earliest trace of alcohol residue was found in pottery from 7000–6600 BC. The pottery was from Jiahu, which was a Neolithic village in China.

Pascale Salah of the School of Veterinary Medicine says there’s a duality between canine and human cancer research and comments on a new fund that has been established to research cancer in dogs.

Joseph Wharton, founder of the Wharton School is referenced for having influenced Philadelphia’s sources of drinking water. Wharton proposed building a series of canals and lakes from the Pine Barrens, channeling the water west, into a pipe that would cross beneath the Delaware, into Philadelphia.

Jena Shaw Tronieri of the Perelman School of Medicine is recruiting 120 patients with obesity who are taking semaglutide for a 72-week clinical trial to study the long-term effects of the medication on appetite.

Michael Mann of the School of Arts & Sciences says that the lack of easterly wave activity and weak trade winds made it possible for storms to develop farther east and earlier in the season.