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Penn researchers help ready camera that maps the sky

Penn researchers help ready camera that maps the sky

Recently, atop a Chilean mountain, scientists from around the world marked the dedication of the Dark Energy Camera, the most powerful sky-mapping machine ever created.

Evan Lerner

Sixteen Penn Faculty Named to Initial Class of AMS Fellows

Sixteen Penn Faculty Named to Initial Class of AMS Fellows

PHILADELPHIA -- Mathematical scientists from around the world, including 16 from the University of Pennsylvania, have been named Fellows of the American Mathematical Society for 2013, the program's initial year.  This inaugural class of 1,119 Fellows represents more than 600 institutions.  

Evan Lerner

Researchers uncover ‘smart’ blood clots

Researchers uncover ‘smart’ blood clots

Blood clots can help or hurt, depending on where they occur. When you get a cut, platelets swarm to the site of an injury and join together, forming a clot that stops the bleeding. But for individuals with the disease atherosclerosis, injury occurs within the wall of an artery and fatty tissue builds up inside these walls and eventually bursts.

Evan Lerner

New Penn physics professor dives deep for research

New Penn physics professor dives deep for research

Alison Sweeney is one of the newest faculty members in the Department of Physics and Astronomy in the School of Arts and Sciences, but until she came to Penn, she didn’t fit into either of those disciplinary boxes.

Evan Lerner

Penn Researchers Find New Way to Prevent Cracking in Nanoparticle Films

Penn Researchers Find New Way to Prevent Cracking in Nanoparticle Films

PHILADELPHIA — Making uniform coatings is a common engineering challenge, and, when working at the nanoscale, even the tiniest cracks or defects can be a big problem. New research from University of Pennsylvania engineers has shown a new way of avoiding such cracks when depositing thin films of nanoparticles.  

Evan Lerner

Penn Researchers Find New Way to Mimic the Color and Texture of Butterfly Wings

Penn Researchers Find New Way to Mimic the Color and Texture of Butterfly Wings

PHILADELPHIA — The colors of a butterfly’s wings are unusually bright and beautiful and are the result of an unusual trait; the way they reflect light is fundamentally different from how color works most of the time.

Evan Lerner

Penn Researchers Show Relationship With Working Dogs Protect Handlers From PTSD

Penn Researchers Show Relationship With Working Dogs Protect Handlers From PTSD

Anyone who has had a pet instinctively knows what several physical and mental health studies have shown: people who have a companion animal have lower levels of stress, anxiety and depression than the general population.

Evan Lerner

The importance of being a ‘nice’ baboon

The importance of being a ‘nice’ baboon

Baboon females actively work to maintain close social bonds but, like humans, some seem to be better at it than others. With the strength of baboons’ social network closely tied to their health and reproductive success, a team of Penn researchers wanted to get at the root of this variation.

Evan Lerner

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