Dramatic calorie restriction, diets reduced by 40 percent of a normal calorie total, have long been known to extend health span, the duration of disease-free aging, in animal studies, and even to extend life span in most animal species examined.

Katherine Unger Baillie ・ February 22, 2018

An international team of astronomers, including Penn researchers, has confirmed the discovery of the most distant supernova ever detected, a huge cosmic explosion that took place 10.5 billion years ago.

Ali Sundermier ・ February 22, 2018

Population-based epidemiological studies provide new opportunities for innovation and collaboration among researchers addressing pressing global-health concerns.

Katherine Unger Baillie ・ February 21, 2018

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Engineering and Applied Science have demonstrated the feasibility of their “organ-on-a-chip” platform in studying how drugs are transported across the human placental barrier.

Ali Sundermier, Evan Lerner ・ February 20, 2018

An international team of astronomers, including researchers from the University of Pennsylvania, has confirmed the discovery of the most distant supernova ever detected, a huge cosmic explosion that took place 10.5 billion years ago.

Ali Sundermier ・ February 20, 2018

Penn senior Kevin Chen will study abroad at the University of Cambridge's Churchill College with a scholarship from the Winston Churchill Foundation.

Jill DiSanto ・ February 13, 2018

In many modern animated movies, the trick to achieving realistic movements for individual characters and objects lies in motion-capture technology. This process often involves someone wearing a tracking suit covered in small, colored balls while a camera captures the position of those colored balls, which is then used to represent how the person is moving.

Ali Sundermier ・ February 12, 2018

Prevailing theories about evolution state that belief in the concept is tied only to a person’s politics, religion or both. But according to new research, whether Americans accept or reject the subject also depends on how well they understand it.  

Michele W. Berger ・ February 7, 2018

Performance can be enhanced by as much as 15 percent, according to a study by Penn neuroscientists published in Nature Communications. It is the first time such a connection has been made.

Michele W. Berger ・ February 6, 2018

As part of a breast-cancer diagnosis, doctors analyze the tumor to determine which therapies might best attack the malignancy. But for patients whose cancer is triple-negative — that is, lacking receptors for estrogen, progesterone and Her2 — the options for treatment dwindle. Triple-negative cancers, or TNBC, also tend to be more aggressive than other cancer subtypes.

Katherine Unger Baillie ・ February 2, 2018