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Science & Technology
The Tertuliano Lab has a bone to pick—and the tools to explain how it breaks
The Tertuliano Lab has a bone to pick—and the tools to explain how it breaks
Penn Engineering Assistant Professor Ottman Tertuliano’s lab creates visual data that demonstrates how bones behave under dynamic stress—a significant unknown in health care.
Delving into quantum dots
Delving into quantum dots
Christopher B. Murray shares his excitement, thoughts, and knowledge on quantum dots, a nanoparticle that just earned his Ph.D. advisor the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Three from Penn receive NIH Director Award
Three from Penn receive NIH Director Award
Kevin B. Johnson, Jina Ko, and Sheila Shanmugan awarded NIH Common Fund’s High-Risk, High-Reward Research program.
How the hippocampus distinguishes true and false memories
How the hippocampus distinguishes true and false memories
Researchers in the School of Arts & Sciences have shown for the first time that electrical signals in the hippocampus differ immediately before recollection of true and false memories.
Center for Innovation & Precision Dentistry positions Penn as a leader in engineering health
Center for Innovation & Precision Dentistry positions Penn as a leader in engineering health
In the two years since the cross-disciplinary research partnership was founded, CiPD has introduced microrobots that clean teeth, a new understanding of bacterial physics in tooth decay, and promising futures for lipid nanoparticles in oral cancer treatment.
Decoding acoustic objects
Decoding acoustic objects
Third-year student Lily Wei spent the summer conducting research in the lab of Vijay Balasubramanian using algorithms to propose how the brain may recognize acoustic objects.
The crisis of climate-driven extinction
The crisis of climate-driven extinction
In a session moderated by Simon Richter, panelists Erol Akçay, Michael Mann, and Zinta Zommers discussed the impact of climate change on efforts to conserve biological diversity.
Removing the barrier surrounding solid tumors clears path for T cells
Removing the barrier surrounding solid tumors clears path for T cells
Penn researchers uncover a new way to target solid tumors. Using CAR T cells to remove cancer-associated fibroblasts surrounding pancreatic tumors allows T cells to infiltrate and attack the tumor cells.
A suit of armor for cancer-fighting cells
A suit of armor for cancer-fighting cells
New research from the University of Pennsylvania offers a safer path for CAR T cell immunotherapy.
Engineering changemakers: Honoring Cora Ingrum and Donna Hampton
Engineering changemakers: Honoring Cora Ingrum and Donna Hampton
Sharing a legacy of leadership and decades of service in Penn Engineering’s Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Cora Ingrum and Donna Hampton had a transformative impact on academic life at the school.
In the News
Vox.com
An oil executive is leading the UN climate summit. It’s going as well as you’d expect
Michael Mann of the School of Arts & Sciences says that Ahmed al-Jaber’s comments about fossil fuels betray an ignorance of climate science and a dismissiveness about the need for rapid decarbonization.
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NPR
Looking back at the transformative first year of ChatGPT
Michael Kearns of the School of Engineering and Applied Science says that ChatGPT could be remembered one day as being as important as the invention of the iPhone, or even the internet itself.
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Salon.com
Most dinosaurs were killed by climate change, not a meteorite, new study suggests
In his recent book “Our Fragile Moment,” Michael Mann of the School of Arts & Sciences details how the history of life on Earth is inextricably tied to the alterations that occur in its climate.
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CNN
These origami-inspired microbots could fix damaged nerves
Researchers at the School of Engineering and Applied Science led by Marc Miskin have built folding microrobots that could potentially go into human bodies to reconnect damaged nerve endings.
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France 24
Climate conspiracy theories flourish ahead of COP28
Michael Mann of the School of Arts & Sciences says that the rise of climate disinformation was organized and orchestrated by opponents of reforms.
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USA Today
Global warming update: Earth briefly surpasses key climate threshold for first time
Michael Mann of the School of Arts & Sciences says that global temperatures should be measured in much longer increments than individual days, weeks, or even a year.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Princeton and Penn scientists win Philly award for their climate change work
Michael Mann of the School of Arts & Sciences has won the 2023 John Scott Award for his work to address climate change.
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Salon.com
Thanks to climate change, autumn will never be the same
Michael Mann of the School of Arts & Sciences says later frosts will mean that mosquitos and disease-carrying pests like ticks will persist further into autumn.
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Yahoo! News
Should you stop flying to fight climate change?
Michael Mann of the School of Arts & Sciences says that decisions by individual climate scientists of whether or not to fly won’t change the system of air travel.
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Tech Crunch
As OpenAI’s multimodal API launches broadly, research shows it’s still flawed
Chris Callison-Burch of the School of Engineering and Applied Science and Ph.D. student Alyssa Hwang provide their early impressions of GPT-4 with vision.
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