Penn was built on the concept of innovation. “If it’s new, novel and holds promise to change the world,” says President Amy Gutmann, “you’ll find it at Penn.”

In Loving Memory: Toronto doctor, underwater photographer and athlete Lucas Murnaghan dies at 45. Dr. Lucas Murnaghan, who captured striking underwater photos, practised orthopedic surgery at the Hospital for Sick Children and co-owned Canadian surfing shop Surf the Greats, has died. In a Ted Talk

In the wake of a recent crash test, NASA has confirmed that there in fact lies a significant amount of water underneath the Moon's surface. Science and tech...

Catch the incredible moment when a new island was born a thousand kilometres south of Japan's capital Tokyo. The new island has been forced up by an underwater volcanic eruption.

Theoretical physicist Michio Kaku discusses his thoughts and solution to the Singularity. Excerpt from the tv series Sci Fi Science.

Dr. Wendy Freedman, Chairman GMT, and Dr. Pat McCarthy, Director GMT, discuss the Giant Magellan Telescope's mirrors and the science that they will enable.

Contact is a 1997 science fiction drama film adapted from the Carl Sagan novel of the same name and directed by Robert Zemeckis. Both Sagan and wife Ann Druyan wrote the story outline for the film adaptation of Contact. Jodie Foster portrays the film's protagonist, Dr. Eleanor "Ellie" Arroway, a SET...

HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUE is the story of the brave young men and women who successfully reversed the tide of an epidemic, demanded the attention of a fearfulnation and stopped AIDS from becoming a death sentence. This improbable group of activists bucked oppression and, with no scientific training, i...

A close look at an extremely visual and rare type of ocean and reef fish: The Feather Starfish.

NASA is so sure the world will not come to an end on Dec. 21, 2012, that they already released a video for the day after. Despite what the Mayan calendar may seem to say or doomsayers claim, NASA remains 100% confident that the world will not coming to an end in 2012.