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A new study led by researchers at Penn State suggests the classic interpretation that fat is responsible for milk's ability to cut the burn caused by the chili extract capsaicin is an oversimplification. They found that protein content matters, too. Credit: Bryon Lippincott/Flickr. All Rights Reserved.

January 31, 2024

Proteins in milk — not just fat — may help reduce oral burn from spicy food
Xiaogang Hu, right, the Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Chair in Neurorehabilitation and associate professor of mechanical engineering, will lead a $4 million grant from the U. S. National Science Foundation to make robotic protheses more useful for people living with amputations. Long Meng, left, a postdoctoral scholar in Hu's lab, will participate in the research. Credit: Kate Myers/Penn State. All Rights Reserved.

January 30, 2024

$4M grant funds project to make robotic prostheses more like biological limbs
Christina Grozinger, Publius Vergilius Maro Professor of Entomology and director of the Penn State Center for Pollinator Research Center, will serve on a new U.S. Department of Agriculture subcommittee on pollinators. Credit: Contributed photo. All Rights Reserved.

January 29, 2024

Penn State entomologists appointed to national committee on pollinator research
Institute of Energy and the Environment (IEE) Director Bruce Logan, center, with four of the six IEE Research Award winners, from left: Adri van Duin, Donghai Wang, Estelle Couradeau and Laura Leites. Siela Maximova and Allyson Muth were unable to attend the event. Credit: Brenna Buck. All Rights Reserved.

January 29, 2024

Six researchers recognized with Institute of Energy and the Environment Awards
A tray of Agaricus bisporus, the common white button mushroom, growing in the Mushroom Research Center at Penn State. Pennsylvania grows almost two-thirds of all Agaricus produced in the United States. Credit: Patrick Mansell / Penn State. Creative Commons

January 29, 2024

Fungi into the future

January 27, 2024

QIAGEN Announces Partnership With Penn State University to Advance Microbiome Sciences

January 26, 2024

Qiagen announces partnership with Penn State University to advance microbiome sciences

January 25, 2024

Deadly Foodborne Bacteria Found To Hide From Sanitizers

January 25, 2024

Qiagen Announces Partnership With Penn State University To Advance Microbiome Sciences
A visit for QIAGEN to Penn State and the One Health Microbiome Center also included sessions where the QIAGEN team met with students to discuss opportunities. Credit: Christie Clancy / Penn State. All Rights Reserved.

January 25, 2024

Penn State, QIAGEN announce strategic partnership to advance microbiome sciences

January 25, 2024

Qiagen partners with Penn State to advance microbiome sciences

January 25, 2024

QIAGEN announces partnership with Penn State University to advance microbiome sciences
Nora Margulis, left, and Anna Sigmon, right, after defending her thesis in Dec. 2022. Credit: Penn State. Creative Commons

January 25, 2024

Undergraduate research may contribute to COVID-19 treatments

January 25, 2024

QIAGEN announces partnership with Penn State University to advance microbiome sciences

January 24, 2024

Bullying on the Rise, Disappearing Pay Phones, Why We Love (or Hate) Spicy Foods
The researchers tested the biofilm-forming ability of assemblages comprising the foodborne pathogens Listeria monocytogenes and environmental microbiota. Credit: Penn State. Creative Commons

January 24, 2024

Foodborne-pathogen Listeria may hide from sanitizers in biofilms

January 24, 2024

Food-borne pathogen Listeria may hide from sanitizers in biofilms
Credit: Michael Tribone. All Rights Reserved.

January 23, 2024

Podcast reveals the scale and complexity of global water challenges

January 23, 2024

These 6 U.S. Cities Are Crawling With Bedbugs — Again

January 23, 2024

Hastings Center Welcomes 13 New Fellows

January 22, 2024

Why are bees making less honey? Study reveals clues
From left are the top, front and side views of the structure of the far-red-light absorbing antenna complex (bicylindrical FRL-AP core) and the far-red-light form of Photosystem II (FRL-Photosystem II dimer), which is a dimer of two equivalent complexes, from the cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. PCC 7335. The Photosystem II reaction center is visible below the bicylindrical core in the middle and right images. A new study determined the the structure of the bicylindrical FRL-AP core; the Photosystem II structure was determined previously. Pigments bound to the proteins in the antenna complex are responsible for collecting light energy that is transferred to the chlorophylls of the Photosystem II dimer, where water is oxidized and oxygen is produced. Different colors depict the various protein subunits that comprise each complex. Credit: Provided by the Bryant Laboratory / Penn State. Creative Commons

January 22, 2024

Altered light-harvesting complex in a cyanobacterium allows low-energy light use
Qiming Zhang, distinguished professor of electrical engineering in Penn State’s College of Engineering. Credit: Kate Myers / Penn State. All Rights Reserved.

January 22, 2024

Engineering professor named National Academy of Inventors fellow

January 20, 2024

The Black Death’s Surprising Impact on Today’s Oral Health