Whether in the kitchen or on a workshop floor, robot assistants that can fetch items for people could be extremely useful.

By incorporating insights from canine companions, researchers enable robots to use both language and gesture as inputs to help fetch the right objects.

Space is a vast and infinitely expansive area with many things we know little about. If we look at how our Solar System moves ...

A microscopic layer of environmental carbon solves a long-standing mystery about static electricity's true origins.

Dr. Eileen Cardillo shares her path to neuroaesthetics, exploring beauty, morality, and the brain at Penn's Center for ...

Youngsters at a Derby special school blasted off from their normal timetable when they worked out what it takes to launch a rocket as part of British Science Week.

Penn-led researchers have shown for the first time that multiple, information-carrying light signals can be safely guided through chip-based, reconfigurable networks using topology, the esoteric ...

A mysterious metal-rich asteroid called Psyche has been baffling scientists for over two centuries, and its true origin ...

As a researcher, I still remember the discomfort I felt every time I had to sacrifice laboratory animals for an experiment.

Magnetic invisibility sounds simple in theory. Place the right materials around an object and magnetic fields flow around it as if nothing were there.

Greg Engel and Julian Solway are building a new field to deliver cutting-edge patient care that requires a level of precision most patients won’t need to understand—and that’s just fine. “Think of an ...

It’s “common knowledge”—and the scare quotes should be a warning—that the sun is an average star.