This week, more than 1,000 of the country’s best swimmers have gathered in Indianapolis, the site of the U.S. Olympic Trials. Only 56 of them … Read More ›
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Inspired by the variety of muscles that control movement in animals, Cynthia Sung, Gabel Family Term Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics (MEAM) … Read More ›
Make sure you finish your antibiotics course, even if you start feeling better’ is a medical mantra many hear but ignore,” says Cesar de la … Read More ›
Largest-Ever Antibiotic Discovery Effort Uses AI to Uncover Potential Cures in Microbial Dark Matter
Almost a century ago, the discovery of antibiotics like penicillin revolutionized medicine by harnessing the natural bacteria-killing abilities of microbes. Today, a new study co-led … Read More ›
The ASSET Center at Penn Engineering aims to make AI-enabled systems more “safe, explainable and trustworthy.” AI can have a transformative impact on the broad … Read More ›
Thanks to a major grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Expeditions in Computing program, Penn Engineering will partner with the University of Texas at … Read More ›
According to Chinese legend, the first cup of tea was an accident. Shennong, a mythical emperor, boiled a pot of water, only for the wind … Read More ›
Image generated by Dall-E. The University of Pennsylvania’s School of Engineering and Applied Science (Penn Engineering), together with collaborators at Harvard University, has been awarded … Read More ›
In 1943, Warren McCullough, a psychiatrist at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and Walter Pitts, a runaway prodigy, co-authored a paper in the Bulletin … Read More ›
Scientists have been studying bones and how they break for over a century, but they’ve primarily been doing so on the large scale, examining entire … Read More ›