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January 24, 2025

‘It’s Important To Learn About The World Around Us’: Penn State Soil Judging Team Qualifies For Nationals

January 24, 2025

Penn State ‘Closely Monitoring’ Trump Executive Order Regarding Sponsored Research

January 24, 2025

Scientists have uncovered a 'simple' way to cure hair loss

January 24, 2025

Researchers glued teeny-tiny QR codes to 30,000 bees

January 24, 2025

32,000 bees tagged with QR codes unlock mystery of pollen-collecting behaviors

January 24, 2025

Researchers glued teeny-tiny QR codes to 30,000 bees
The findings are a step in identifying beneficial microorganisms that potentially could be used to improve mushroom harvests and prevent disease, the researchers said. Credit: Harshal S. Hirve/Unsplash. All Rights Reserved.

January 24, 2025

Harnessing mushroom microbiomes for better crop development
Three Penn State researchers have been awarded the highest honor the United States government bestows on early-career scientists and engineers. They are (from left to right): Catherine Berdanier, associate professor of mechanical engineering; Margarita Lopez-Uribe, Lorenzo L. Langstroth Early Career Professor and associate professor of entomology; and Lauren Zarzar, professor of chemistry. Credit: Penn State. Creative Commons

January 24, 2025

Three faculty receive Presidential Early Career Award for scientists, engineers
Farmers confer amidst their corn crop, garden and fish ponds. Typically, smallholder fish farms are family-run operations that raise tilapia in small areas of land along with a few crops and some livestock. Credit: Jacob Johnson. All Rights Reserved.

January 24, 2025

Researchers explore strategies to aid smallholder fish farmers in Zambia
Tao Zhou, assistant professor of engineering science and mechanics, received a five-year, $660,000 CAREER award from the U.S. National Science Foundation to develop stretchy, injectable hydrogel electrodes to treat spinal cord injuries. Credit: Poornima Tomy / Penn State. All Rights Reserved.

January 23, 2025

NSF CAREER Award supports pursuit of ‘soft’ solutions for spinal cord injuries

January 23, 2025

Mane attraction: Molecular ‘switch’ may control long scalp hair

January 23, 2025

Fewer lanternflies this summer? Maybe, and you can thank this week's deep freeze
First author Prabhav Borate, a graduate student in engineering science, demonstrates how lab earthquakes are created: by grinding two blocks of rock together until a failure occurs. Credit: Poornima Tomy / Penn State. All Rights Reserved.

January 23, 2025

Predicting lab earthquakes with physics-informed artificial intelligence
Treating hair loss may be as simple as developing therapies to flip a molecular “switch,” according to a new study by researchers from Penn State; the University of California, Irvine; and National Taiwan University. Credit: iprogressman / Getty Images. All Rights Reserved.

January 23, 2025

Mane attraction: Molecular ‘switch’ may control long scalp hair
Yongsoo Kim, associate professor of neural and behavioral sciences at the Penn State College of Medicine, is leading a new five-year, $17.9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Mental Health. Credit: Jason Plotkin / Penn State. Creative Commons

January 23, 2025

$17.9M NIH grant to research neurodevelopment disorders
Researchers attached QR codes to the backs of thousands of bees to track when and for how long they left their hives. Credit: Provided by the researchers. All Rights Reserved.

January 22, 2025

‘Buzz me in:’ Bees wearing itty bitty QR codes reveal hive secrets
The finding that the resident geese employed short-term abandonment of hunted locations to avoid predation, but maintained long-term fidelity to the wildlife management areas, surprised the researchers and ran counter to findings from similar waterfowl studies. Credit: Steve Higgins, Flickr. All Rights Reserved.

January 21, 2025

Despite knowing where and when people hunt, Canada geese don’t flee far

January 21, 2025

Scientists Just Created a Pasta So Tiny You Can't See It With the Naked Eye
The biosensing platform developed by Penn State engineering researchers incorporates two-pass laser induced graphene with commercial transistors to simultaneously test for SARS-CoV-2 and vitamin C. Credit: Heshmat “Amir” Asgharian / Penn State. All Rights Reserved.

January 21, 2025

Biosensing platform simultaneously detects vitamin C and SARS-CoV-2

January 17, 2025

Discovery May Eliminate Need for Vaccine Refrigeration

January 17, 2025

Closing coal plants in environmental justice communities first would save more lives: Study
Huck Director Christina Grozinger

January 17, 2025

Christina Grozinger to lead Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences as director
Orfeu Buxton, Elizabeth Susman Professor of Biobehavioral Health at Penn State, will present the 2025 Pattishall Research Lecture, “Sleep Health Across the Life Span,” on Wednesday, Feb. 5 at 3 p.m. in the Edna Bennett Pierce Living Center (110 Henderson Building). Credit: via Getty Images; A Mokhtari and Annandistock. All Rights Reserved.

January 17, 2025

Feb. 5 lecture to discuss how sleep health affects daily life, long-term health
Through a series of experiments, the research team led by Scott Medina, right, William and Wendy Korb Early Career Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Penn State, replaced the water-based solution commonly used in protein-based medications with a perfluorocarbon oil and tested five different proteins with a range of health-related functions such as antibodies and enzymes. Credit: Penn State. Creative Commons

January 16, 2025

Discovery could eliminate need to refrigerate vaccines and protein-based drugs