A Penn State scientist studying crystal structures has developed a new mathematical formula that may solve a decades-old problem in understanding spacetime, the fabric of…
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A newly formed star is surrounded by a rotating disk of gas and dust, called a protoplanetary disk. This disk, illustrated here around a brown…
Scientists found using a chromium seed layer allowed them to grow ultrathin gold film that serves as a transparent electrode with good conductivity for perovskite…
An international team of researchers has produced a map of the dark matter within the local universe, using a model to infer its location due…
A Penn State research team found that the N protein on SARS-CoV-2 is conserved across all SARS-related pandemic coronaviruses (top, from left: SARS-CoV-2, civet, SARS-CoV,…
The Hobby-Eberly Telescope. Credit: Marty Harris, McDonald Observatory, UT Austin The universe we see is only the very tip of the vast cosmic iceberg. The…
New soft, mechanical metamaterials can “think” about how forces are applied to it and respond via preprogrammed reactions. Credit: Elizabeth Flores-Gomez Murray/ Penn State New…
Spotted salamanders are a widespread species across the eastern United States that return to temporary ponds in the spring to breed. Credit: Sean Giery, Penn…
Artist’s conception of the mystery of the magnetic moment of the muon — a sub-atomic particle similar to, but heavier than, an electron (represented by…
An international team of researchers, led by Huanyu “Larry” Cheng, Dorothy Quiggle Career Development Professor in the Penn State Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics,…
Mummified scarlet macaw recovered from Pica 8 in northern Chile. Credit: Calogero Santoro, Universidad de Tarapacá, and José Capriles, Penn State Ancient Egyptians mummified cats,…
Mauro Guillén, a professor of international management at the Wharton School answers the questions surrounding the sudden interest. Bitcoin stock surged earlier this month when…
This map of the Earth shows the spatial pattern of temperature variance by percentage. The most variance is seen in the tropics with less at…
Researchers have reconstructed the ancestral sequence of the great ape Y chromosome by comparing three existing (gorilla, human, and chimpanzee) and two newly generated (orangutan…
A thermally modulated battery for mass-market electric vehicles without range anxiety and with unsurpassed safety, low cost, and containing no cobalt, is being developed by…
Zombie and other horror and science fiction movies and TV shows may have prepared viewers for the current pandemic. Credit: Patrick Mansell, Penn State Tales…
Researchers found that temperature and precipitation patterns are very important drivers of wild bee communities in our study, more important than the amount of suitable…
The Hobby-Eberly Telescope at dusk. The flags of the four partner institutions fly with the U.S. flag outside the open dome. Credit: Ethan Tweedie Photography…
A self-administered ‘scratch-and-sniff’ test for COVID-19 may be around the corner, according to researchers at Penn State, the University of Florida, and Arizona State University.…
Map of the Cascadia subduction zone. Megathrust earthquakes and subsequent tsunamis that originate in subduction zones like Cascadia — Vancouver Island, Canada, to northern California…