A team of international researchers, led by Huanyu “Larry” Cheng, Dorothy Quiggle Career Development Professor in Penn State’s Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, has…
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Geoscientists have long known that some parts of the continents formed in the Earth’s deep past, but the speed in which land rose above global…
Funding from the National Institutes of Health will enable a Penn State researcher to study whether vitamin D supplementation could help people ward off or…
The series of illustrations on this page are a schematic illustrating three ways that standard samples from COVID-19 clinical trials can be repurposed to assess…
Graphene memristors open doors for biomimetic computing. Credit: Jennifer M. McCann/Penn State As progress in traditional computing slows, new forms of computing are coming to…
A team of researchers from Penn State and New York University has deconstructed an important “biological clock” in the zebra finch brain and found that…
Progeny of novel combination is more vigorous and productive than parental plants. Novel grafted plants — consisting of rootstock epigenetically modified to “believe” it has…
With a novel layer to help the metallic components of the sensor bond, an international team of researchers printed sensors directly on human skin. Credit:…
Tiny quantum fluctuations in the early universe explain two major mysteries about the large-scale structure of the universe, in a cosmic tango of the very…
Stone box with carved shell llama and rolled gold foil. Credit: Teddy Sequin A llama carved from a spondylus shell and a cylindrical laminated gold…
Over time goldenrod plants and the gall flies that feed on them have been one-upping each other in an ongoing competition for survival. Now, a…
NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of Galaxy NGC 1068 with its active black hole shown as an illustration in the zoomed-in inset. A new model…
A gargantuan hailstone that fell in Argentina may have set a world record, according to researchers. Credit: Victoria Druetta A supercell thunderstorm pelted a city…
For more than 40 years, scientists have hypothesized the existence of enzyme clusters, or “metabolons,” in facilitating various processes within cells. Using a novel imaging…
China’s control measures during the first 50 days of the COVID-19 epidemic may have delayed the spread of the virus to cities outside of Wuhan…
The Albert Einstein Memorial. Hard workers may make better role models than geniuses. Role models are important for aspiring scientists, but new research suggests that…
Hawaiian bobtail squid. Two genetic factors that control the expression of a key gene required by the luminescent bacteria that inhabit the squid’s light organs…
Penn State-led near-infrared spectrograph recently installed on the 10m Hobby-Eberly Telescope at McDonald Observatory in Texas. Credit: Ethan Tweedie Photography A signal originally detected by…
Researchers determined that diets with reduced sulfur amino acids — which occur in protein-rich foods, such as meats, dairy, nuts, and soy — were associated…
The number of hop farms in a state is related to the number of craft breweries. Credit: Penn State Craft breweries aren’t just a fun…