Good Returns
The dangers and rewards of giving more than you get. An excerpt from Give and Take by Wharton professor Adam Grant. Plus: Interview with the author.
Challenging the Consensus on Dietary Salt
Q&A on dietary salt: too little can be bad, but you still eat too much.
The Revolution Has Not Been Personalized: Genomic Medicine at the Ten-Year Mark
Q&A | After 10 years, genetic medicine mostly a “desert.”
Stopping the Clock?
Will the mainstreaming of egg freezing offer women more choice about when to have children—kind of like the Pill in reverse—or delude them with a false sense of security?
The Sleep Whisperer
Q&A with David Dinges, who knows why you feel so tired.
Getting to the Bottom of the Bag
Reusable bags may carry more than groceries.
Findings
Are you unusually sensitive to Brussels sprouts and hoppy ales?
Smilow Center for Translational Research
Smilow family gift to name Center for Translational Research.
Penn faculty members join National Academy of Sciences
Penn profs make it their mission to solve all sorts of crippling diseases.
Wistar Insitute finds that the immune system can fight AIDS, if it’s given a boost
A team of researchers led by Penn’s Wistar Institute have shown in a clinical trial that HIV-infected patients can fight off the virus by themselves if their immune system is given a boost.
Penn’s quadrotors go to TED2012, start a band
The little quadrotor robots have been keeping busy lately.
Researchers at Penn receive $1.5 million NOAA grant
Penn team will try to find how sea-level rise varies spatially.
Dino Detectives
Penn paleontologists determine pigmentation of 100 million-year-old fossils.
An end to the debate?
Penn researchers prove that sea level is rising faster now than it has for the past two millennia.
The Debunker Debunked
Samuel Morton (Class of 1820) is vindicated.
T-minus Six Days
Catch the Philadelphia Science Festival before it ends.