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Nazifa Tabassum, left, and Katie Yan will speak at ENVISION: STEM Career Day Supporting Young Women on March 29. Credit: Penn State. Creative Commons

March 13, 2025

Graduate students to present their journeys in science

March 13, 2025

How Do You Solve a Problem Like Big Pharma? We Ask a Bioethicist
Brook trout, an iconic coldwater fish species native to streams and lakes in the eastern United States and Canada, begin to experience declines in growth rate in water above 61 degrees Fahrenheit and acute heat stress above 68 degrees Fahrenheit. In this study, researchers caught, sampled and released fish in four streams in Pennsylvania. Credit: Jason Keagy/Penn State. All Rights Reserved.

March 13, 2025

Threatened by warming waters, brook trout may be able to adapt to hotter weather

March 11, 2025

Abortion restriction based on environmental impacts fails in Montana

March 11, 2025

Penn State Scientists Use AI to Study Bee Population Decline
The new method may eventually help give insight into why bee populations are declining overall, according to the researchers. Credit: Adonyi Gábor/Unsplash. All Rights Reserved.

March 10, 2025

Analyzing genetic ‘signatures’ may give insight into what stresses wild bees
Sarah Assmann Credit: Penn State. Creative Commons

March 10, 2025

Plant biologist awarded the Masatoshi Nei Innovation Prize in Biology
Penn State Associate Professor of Psychology Katie Burkhouse and a colleague at Vanderbilt University recently received a five-year, $3.8 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to study maternal depression’s potential effect on young children. Credit: Katie Burkhouse . All Rights Reserved.

March 10, 2025

Grant to explore maternal depression’s effect on young children

March 09, 2025

8 Fruits That Are Surprisingly High In Protein
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March 07, 2025

Energy deficiency's impact on women’s health and sport topic of upcoming lecture

March 06, 2025

How to calculate your biological age (no, it's not your birthday)

March 05, 2025

Tiny QR codes on bees are helping Penn State researchers study foraging behavior

March 05, 2025

Pesticides affect bumble bee health in complex ways
Credit: Courtesy of the Bisanz Lab / Penn State. Creative Commons

March 03, 2025

Synthetic microbiome therapy suppresses bacterial infection without antibiotics
Environmental contaminants don’t just pose direct risks to human health — they may also have hidden effects through the microbiome that researchers are working to uncover. Credit: Brenna Buck. All Rights Reserved.

March 03, 2025

'Growing Impact' discusses environmental contaminants, human health

March 03, 2025

Painkillers don't work as well for women. Here's why.

March 02, 2025

Select corn lines contain compounds that sicken, kill major crop pest

March 02, 2025

New Research on The Evolution of Intelligent Life

February 28, 2025

Penn State VP responds to faculty concerns about federal research funding in town hall
photo of bioprinting process in the lab

February 28, 2025

Could 3D-printed air revolutionize bioprinting?
The researchers discuss the project in its early stages. From left are Aline Novaski Seffrin, doctoral candidate in plant science; Francesco Di Gioia, associate professor of vegetable crop science; and Chenchen Kang, a former post-doctoral scholar in the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering. Credit: Penn State. Creative Commons

February 27, 2025

New computer vision system can guide specialty crops monitoring
Bywater’s research centers on food safety within controlled environment agriculture systems, particularly in soilless farming methods such as hydroponics. Credit: Penn State. Creative Commons

February 27, 2025

Penn State Ag student Auja Bywater wins global research award

February 27, 2025

New study reveals most Europeans had dark skin over 3,000 years ago

February 26, 2025

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