Natural Science

Evolving Together In the Same Direction

Penn's "Evolution Cluster"

Mercury Rising: A Q&A on Climate Change with Alain Plante (VIDEO)

The soil expert uses biogeochemistry to better understand the delicate balance of the carbon cycle.

U.N. Panel Confronts Climate Change

Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Science Irina Marinov provides insight on 2014's U.N. panel on climate change.

The Physics of Patient Care

Penn’s Medical Physics Graduate Program creates physicists who heal.

What the Bacteria Saw

By using Lyme disease bacteria to research evolution, Assistant Professor of Biology Dustin Brisson is advancing both science and medicine.

Weighing the Odds

Psychology researchers develop a tool that can weigh multiple variables in making treatment decisions.

Picking the Perfect Present

Baird Term Assistant Professor of Psychology Joseph Kable studies how we make decisions (or sometimes don’t).

From Greenhouse to Green

Daniel Mindiola is finding new ways to harness greenhouse gases.

Growing Up in a Green World

Plant Developmental Biologist Scott Poethig

Genius in the Making

Psychology’s Angela Duckworth receives prestigious "genius grant."

Science Funding and U.

Richard Schultz, Charles and William L. Day Distinguished Professor of Biology and Associate Dean for the Natural Sciences, provides insight on the pressures of securing federal funding for basic research.