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August 07, 2023

New neurotechnology is blurring the lines around mental privacy – but are new human rights the answer?

August 07, 2023

Why do we always have room for dessert?

August 06, 2023

Forget the lantern fly. A mysterious new pest has scientists sounding the alarm.
Researchers found little evidence of a repeatable pattern of peak timing of influenza throughout Vietnam. Credit: AsiaVision. All Rights Reserved.

August 04, 2023

Influenza shows no seasonality in tropics, posing challenges for health care
A new method offers a simple, safe, and practical way to create cyclopropanes—a key feature that increases the potency of many drugs and drug-candidates—within molecules. Credit: National Cancer Institute/Unsplash. All Rights Reserved.

August 03, 2023

New, simple and accessible method creates potency-increasing structure in drugs
Graduate student Ryan Trexler collects cores of biocrust from the field before bringing them back to the lab to study. Credit: Penn State. Creative Commons

August 03, 2023

Microbe-stuffed soil crusts menaced by climate change

August 03, 2023

Your 101 Guide To Salmon: Health Benefits, Environmental Impact & Cooking Tips

August 03, 2023

GABA Receptors Unveiled as Potential Antidepressant Targets

August 02, 2023

How much good does recycling do these days?

August 02, 2023

Erica Smithwick: A practical, financially helpful way to fight climate change
Carolee Bull, top center, will serve on the presidential lineage of the American​ Phytopathological Society until 2027. Credit: Penn State. Creative Commons

August 02, 2023

Penn State faculty member elected to plant pathology society leadership
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July 31, 2023

Penn State CTSI announces seven Bridges to Translation pilot funding recipients
Evan Pugh University Professor of Anthropology Nina G. Jablonski has been named an Atherton Professor. The newly created professorship is reserved exclusively for retiring Evan Pugh professors in recognition of their exemplary research and creative accomplishments, teaching and learning, and service over the course of their careers, and allows for the continuation of these activities to the benefit of the University community. Credit: Heidi Lynne . All Rights Reserved.

July 31, 2023

Anthropology faculty member Nina Jablonski named Atherton Professor

July 29, 2023

Your body can build up tolerance to heat. Here’s how.

July 27, 2023

Spider bites sleeping man's throat: 'I woke up choking and couldn't breathe'

July 26, 2023

New study aims to help Pennsylvania dairy farmers develop 'climate smart' practices
A photo of (L-R) Jessica Walnut, Alenka Hafer (front), Troy Ott (rear), Corrine Smolen, and Avery Sicher

July 26, 2023

HGSAC looks to raise the bar with election of new co-chairs
Kate Anton instructs a participant during the recent honey bee instrumental insemination workshop at University Park. Anton is a research technologist in the Department of Entomology and Center for Pollinator Research in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences and Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences. Credit: Robyn Underwood. All Rights Reserved.

July 26, 2023

Workshop empowers beekeepers to breed more resilient honey bees
Cassie Stark, who spearheaded the study as a master’s degree student, studied four populations each of Allium tricoccum and Allium burdickii in southwestern Pennsylvania, and compared and contrasted the habitats where they were found. She is shown in a population of Allium burdickii — commonly known as narrow-leaved wild leek Credit: Penn State. Creative Commons

July 26, 2023

Second species of ramp, or wild leek, documented in Pennsylvania

July 26, 2023

Climate change could wipe out more than 700 plant and lichen species

July 25, 2023

Masai giraffes at increased risk after subspecies divides into two
A 52-million-year-old compound infructescence fossil showing preserved fruits and seeds attached to branches, collected by the late Rodolfo Magín Casamiquela from Laguna del Hunco, Chubut province, Argentina. The plant's characteristics — such as the terminal fruit (tf), axile seeds (sd) and plumose stigma (st) — are only found today in the Macaranga-Mallotus clade of the spurge family. Credit: Photo provided by Peter Wilf. All Rights Reserved.

July 24, 2023

Spurge purge: Plant fossils reveal ancient South America-to-Asia ‘escape route’

July 23, 2023

These are the 10 most educated cities in the US: study

July 23, 2023

There is still hope for coral reefs amid record-warm sea surface temperatures, studies show