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May 08, 2025

A Breakthrough in Emotional Sensing: Wearable Patch Reveals Hidden Feelings
A printed prototype using the current version of the custom extrusion system for in-place 3D concrete printing. This iteration demonstrates the successful integration of continuous reinforcement with concrete deposition, marking a key step in the ongoing development toward structural-scale applications. Credit: Ali Baghi. All Rights Reserved.

May 08, 2025

Manufacturing PA Innovation Program funds two Stuckeman-led research projects
This fossil leaf of a Kapur Paya tree (Dryobalanops rappa) from Brunei is the first fossil record of an endangered tropical tree species. Credit: Wang/Wilf. All Rights Reserved.

May 08, 2025

First fossil evidence of endangered tropical tree discovered
The results of this study strongly suggest that Native Americans did, indeed, extensively use fire to manage their environment and both directly and indirectly promoted fire-adapted trees such as oak and beech. Credit: Penn State. Creative Commons

May 08, 2025

Cultural burning by Indigenous peoples increased oak in forests near settlements
The findings may have implications for policymakers hoping to make these conservation programs more impactful, according to the researchers. Credit: Jon Flobrant/Unsplash. All Rights Reserved.

May 07, 2025

Some water conservation programs may get more value by targeting rural farms
Réka Albert, Evan Pugh University Professor and professor of physics and biology at Penn State, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. She pioneered network science, a method that involves studying systems as networks, where individual components — like people, proteins or genes — are represented as "nodes," and their interactions are depicted as "edges." This approach led to new ways to visualize and analyze the intricate web of connections in various systems.​ Credit: Michelle Bixby / Penn State. Creative Commons

May 07, 2025

Biological physicist Réka Albert elected to National Academy of Sciences
By extending egg production in broiler breeder hens, farmers may be able to reduce flock turnover, improve animal welfare and increase efficiency, according to researchers at Penn State. Credit: Hispanolistic/Getty Images. All Rights Reserved.

May 07, 2025

Common diabetes drug helps chickens lay more eggs
The lightweight and flexible electrode, which looks like a strand of hair, attaches directly to the scalp and delivers stable, high-quality recordings of the brain’s signals. Credit: Courtesy of the Zhou Lab / Penn State. Creative Commons

May 02, 2025

The future of brain activity monitoring may look like a strand of hair
$2.7M NIH grant to fund first comprehensive syphilis test

May 01, 2025

$2.7M NIH grant to fund first comprehensive syphilis test
Brandon Mabey, a first-year student at Penn State Scranton, and Emma Sokaloski, a second-year student at Penn State Wilkes-Barre, worked with Luciana Caporaletti, lecturer in biology at Penn State Wilkes-Barre, on a research project presented at the Pennsylvania Academy of Science's annual meeting. Credit: Penn State. Creative Commons

May 01, 2025

Students, faculty find evidence of beech leaf disease in two state parks
Jame Marden

April 30, 2025

Celebrating James Marden: A Decade of Impact and a Lifetime of Achievement
Researchers found an approximate two-minute difference in the 5K time trials between runners with insufficient energy intake and runners with sufficient energy intake. Credit: Marian Vejcik/Getty Images; edited by Dennis Maney  . All Rights Reserved.

April 30, 2025

Energy deficiency impacts collegiate running performance
Heather Hines headshot

April 29, 2025

Heather Hines named interim director of the Center for Pollinator Research and the Insect Biodiversity Center
attendees at the 2024 life sciences symposium examine student posters

April 29, 2025

HGSAC prepares for largest Life Sciences Symposium yet

April 28, 2025

Penn State adds artificial intelligence major, with a focus on ethics

April 27, 2025

A Key Antioxidant for Longevity Is Fading From Our Food Supply
Julio Flores Cuadra, left, is pursuing a graduate degree in neuroscience at Penn State, and Junyao Yuan, is pursuing one in integrative and biomedical physiology. Credit: Penn State. All Rights Reserved.

April 25, 2025

Penn State graduate students receive American Heart Association fellowships
A survey of fruit growers last year revealed that 95% were eager to explore drone spraying technology, citing increased efficiency, labor savings and improved soil health as key benefits. Credit: Penn State. Creative Commons

April 25, 2025

Are drones the future of tree fruit production? Researchers investigate
This study is the first to scientifically document use of ghost pipe in North America, along with the growing influence of social media and the internet on how and why people are turning to ghost pipe as a medicinal plant. Credit: Penn State. Creative Commons

April 25, 2025

Traditional forest medicinal plant ghost pipe used differently today

April 24, 2025

A New Jersey wildfire tore through thousands of acres—right after the state cut back on prescribed burns
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine recently appointed Christina Grozinger, Publius Vergilius Maro Professor of Entomology and director of the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences at Penn State, to an 18-member study committee to examine the status of insects in North America. Credit: Christina Grozinger / Penn State. Creative Commons

April 24, 2025

Grozinger appointed to National Academies committee on insect declines
New research predicts the location of DNA sequences that can form structures besides the canonical double helix — non-B DNA — in the recently released telomere-to-telomere genomes of the great apes, finding that non-B DNA is enriched in newly deciphered genomic regions, including telomeres and centromeres. Image shows evolutionary relationships among the great apes, left from top to bottom, including chimpanzee, bonobo, human, gorilla and two orangutan species and illustrations of representative chromosomes, right, with canonical helical and non-B DNA. Credit: Dani Zemba and Makova Laboratory / Penn State. Creative Commons

April 24, 2025

Beyond the double helix: Alternative DNA conformations in ape genomes

April 23, 2025

Forget "mood" rings, this invention just identified human emotions with nearly 90% accuracy

April 23, 2025

Is Your Air Actually Safe? 50 Million Americans Live in ‘Monitoring Deserts’