Science & Technology

Penn Biologists Show How Plants Turn Off Genes They Don’t Need

Electric Vehicles Gain Speed and Penn’s Team Zooms to First

The Penn Electric Racing team has been on a roll this summer, notching back-to-back first-place finishes in two prestigious competitions.

Penn Researchers Link Technologies and Rejection of Wife-beating Justifications

Women with technologies like computers and mobile phones in their homes are more likely to reject justifications for wife beating, according to new findings from Susan B.

Q&A: Penn Criminologist Richard Berk on the Future of Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence has great potential to transform many facets of our society, from cars to health care to the way the criminal justice system uses information about arrest records.

Penn collaboration works to answer a fundamental nanotechnology question

Physicists have invented a new type of graphene-based sensor that could one day be used as a low-cost diagnostic system able to test for biomarker molecules, which are indicative of disease states.

Penn Engineering Students Use Cutting-edge Technology to Create Immersive Virtual Reality Worlds

When Charles Wang, a student at the University of Pennsylvania, was growing up, he wanted to be a video-game designer. As he headed to college, he came to believe he would have to trade in this goal for a more common profession.

Successful Guide Dogs Have ‘Tough Love’ Moms, Penn Study Finds

Much has been written of the pitfalls of being a helicopter parent, one who insulates children from adversity rather than encouraging their independence.

Penn Vet Researchers Contribute Expertise to Checklist for ‘One Health’ Studies

A growing body of scientific research is focused on One Health, the integration of knowledge concerning humans, animals and the environment. Yet there is no clear, unified definition of what a One Health study is or how such a study should be conducted.

Penn Astronomers Contribute to the Most Accurate Measurement of Dark Matter Structure in the Universe

For the past four years, as part of a project called the Dark Energy Survey, a team of scientists from around the globe has aimed one of the world’s most powerful digital cameras towards the sky with the hopes of answering fundamental questions about the universe.

Penn Engineers Identify Protein Implicated in 3-D Epigenetics of Brain Development

The vast majority of genetic mutations that are associated with disease occur at sites in the genome that aren’t genes. These sequences of DNA don’t code for proteins themselves, but provide an additional layer of instructions that determine if and when particular genes are expressed.

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