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Penn Astronomer Helping Build Next-generation Planet Finder
University of Pennsylvania astronomer Cullen Blake is part of a team selected by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Astrophysics Division to build a $10 million, cutting-edge
Singh Center open house introduces seed grant program
The Singh Center for Nanotechnology held its first Entrepreneurship and Innovation Open House last week, bringing together Penn faculty, staff, and students with users of the facility from local business and industry.
Finding a plant’s ‘fingerprint’ in the veins of its leaves
Hundreds of thousands of people have been descending on Philadelphia throughout the past week, drawn by the allure of plants.
Penn Researchers’ Theory: Brain’s Location-tracking Cells Use Transcendental Number System
Animals use specialized neurons in their brain known as grid cells to keep track of their physical location.
Balancing Privacy and Security in Network Analysis
In the digital age, data is ubiquitous. The increasing ease with which every online interaction can be stored, compared and analyzed has transformed a wide swath of business and led to the formation of new ones.
Penn Study Shows How Protein’s ‘Breakaway’ Bonds are Critical in Concussions
Even the mildest form of a traumatic brain injury, better known as a concussion, can cause permanent, irreparable damage. Now, an interdisciplinary team of University of Pennsylvania researchers is improving their mathematical model of how this injury happens on the molecular scale.
Penn engineers use network science to predict ligament injuries
When doctors diagnose a torn ligament, it’s usually because they can see ruptures in the ligament’s collagen fibers, which are visible on a variety of different scans. However, doctors also often treat patients who have symptoms of a tear, but whose ligaments don’t show this kind of damage.
Women power up and code at Penn’s FemmeHacks competition
For a brief moment at the end of World War II, every computer programmer in the world was a woman.
Penn Engineers Use Network Science to Predict How Ligaments Fail
When doctors diagnose a torn ligament, it’s usually because they can see ruptures in the ligament’s collagen fibers, visible on a variety of different scans. However, they also often treat patients with many of the symptoms of a tear, but whose ligaments don’t show this kind of damage.
Engineering more power-efficient phase change memory devices
Researchers are constantly looking for new and better ways of storing the 0’s and 1’s of computer memory. One idea has been to represent bits as different atomic structures in a material.