The integration of computers in modern life has led to an explosion in networks and the amount of data flowing through them. This information has enabled the more efficient management of electrical grids, and new research techniques in fields as diverse as sociology, astronomy, and genetics.

On Wednesday, Oct. 23, the University of Pennsylvania’s Nano/Bio Interface Center will host its annual NanoDay@Penn. This public education and outreach event will feature a series of talks, demonstrations and exhibits dealing with nanotechnology, a rapidly expanding scientific discipline that involves the manipulation of matter on the atomic and molecular scale.

As computers become more enmeshed in everyday life, both their software and hardware are becoming accessible to the average person. Whereas do-it-yourself enthusiasts of earlier generations tackled birdhouses and AM radios, this generation is making its own robots, 3-D printers and cell phone accessories.

The University of Pennsylvania is launching a new, interdisciplinary research effort to study and solve problems using the tools of the digital age: The Warren Center for Network & Data Sciences.  

Centuries of economic theory have been based on one simple premise: When given a choice between two items, people make the rational decision and select the one they value more. But as with many simple premises, this one has a flaw—it is demonstrably untrue.

Two physicists, Peter Higgs and Francois Englert, received a Nobel Prize in Physics earlier this week, honoring their work on a theory that is now known as the Higgs field, which gives particles mass.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences today awarded the Nobel Prize in physics to theorists Peter Higgs and Francois Englert to recognize their work developing the theory of what is now known as the Higgs field, which gives elementary particles mass.

Last year, the School of Engineering and Applied Science’s GRASP lab and the Wharton School’s Mack Institute helped take cutting-edge robots out of the lab and into the marketplace through the

The University of Pennsylvania will officially open the region’s premier facility for advanced research, education, and innovative public/private partnerships in nanotechnology on October 4.

The University of Pennsylvania and Carnegie Mellon University have received a $5.65 million U.S. Department of Transportation grant for a joint research center to conduct transportation technology research and development.