When linguist Mark Liberman was working at Bell Labs in the 1980s, he commiserated with researchers at other companies about how difficult it was to acquire and digitize language data, such as the ...

The Linguistic Data Consortium, hosted at Penn and directed by Penn linguistics professor Mark Liberman, laid the groundwork for modern large language models. By stacking hundreds of sheets of Mylar, ...

When engineers think about protective materials, like those used in packaging and support, they usually think about strength, stiffness and durability. But what if those same materials could also ...

Penn Engineers have developed a novel design for solar-powered data centers that will orbit the earth and could realistically scale to meet the growing demand for AI computing while reducing the ...

Penn-led researchers have turned a deadly fungus into a potent cancer-fighting compound. After isolating a new class of molecules from Aspergillus flavus, a toxic crop fungus linked to deaths in the ...

To develop new and better peptides, the short amino-acid strings behind medicines like GLP-1 drugs, researchers have used AI to generate candidates and to predict their properties. However, merging ...

Astronomers have been waiting decades for the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, which promises to peer farther into space than ever before. But if humans want to actually reach our nearest ...

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and University of Michigan have created the world’s smallest fully programmable, autonomous robots: microscopic swimming machines that can independently ...

Retatrutide, a next-generation GLP-1 weight-loss drug, is not yet approved for use. Nevertheless, online forums reveal that people are purchasing unapproved versions of the drug, which are not ...

Penn Engineers have modified lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) — the revolutionary technology behind the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines — to not only cross the blood-brain barrier (BBB) but also to target specific ...

The new study, published in Nature Health, covers more than half a decade of posts from nearly 70,000 Reddit users and highlights two main classes of symptoms that warrant further study: reproductive ...

Gene editing has promised a way to treat some diseases, including inherited genetic disorders, blood conditions and cancer, at their genetic roots. But even as tools such as CRISPR, which allows ...