PHILADELPHIA — We often hear that “knowledge is power.” But, that isn’t always the case, especially when the knowledge pertains to the health of an unborn child, with murky implications, at best.

Karen Kreeger ・September 20, 2012

PHILADELPHIA — It’s not every day that a new academic discipline is born. But that’s exactly what happened in 2010, when the Project on Bioethics, Sexuality and Gender Identity — or “Queer Bioethics,” for short — came to life at the University of Pennsylvania.

Katherine Unger Baillie ・September 20, 2012

Jill DiSanto ・September 20, 2012

From Paleolithic cave paintings to the latest wave of 3D motion pictures, animation has captured our imagination by bringing objects to virtual life for thousands of years.

Jacquie Posey September 19, 2012

Eight billion years ago, rays of light from distant galaxies began their long journey to Earth. On Sept. 17, that ancient starlight found its way to a mountaintop in Chile, where the newly constructed Dark Energy Camera, the most powerful sky-mapping machine ever created, captured and recorded it for the first time.

Evan Lerner ・September 17, 2012

What a difference a year makes.

Jacquie Posey September 13, 2012

Much-praised book that confronts the “skills gap” myth available at no cost from Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble, and Sony

Peter Winicov September 10, 2012

PHILADELPHIA -– The Center for the Advanced Study of India at the University of Pennsylvania will hold a 20th Anniversary Symposium on “India: Two Decades of Transformation.”

Jacquie Posey September 10, 2012

PHILADELPHIA — Computers may be getting faster every year, but those advances in computer speed could be dwarfed if their 1’s and 0’s were represented by bursts of light, instead of electricity.

Evan Lerner ・September 7, 2012

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Ron Ozio ・September 4, 2012