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A new study by biologists at Penn State suggests that the gut microbiomes of warblers — like the northern parula pictured here — are influenced more by evolution than diet. Credit: Hans Toom/Pixabay. All Rights Reserved.

November 21, 2022

What shapes the composition of microbes in a warbler’s gut?
Christiansborg Palace is the seat of the Dutch Parliament where Bruce Logan will deliver his research talk. Credit: Adobe Stock. All Rights Reserved.

November 21, 2022

Penn State researcher to deliver renewable energy talk to Danish Parliament
Pennsylvania stream impacted by acid mine drainage. Credit: Penn State. Creative Commons

November 21, 2022

New process developed to extract high purity rare earth element oxides
Collaborators at the University of Colorado Boulder created a robotic wing made of plastic and cardboard laminate to study the mechanism by which fruit flies compensate for wing damage in flight. Credit: Provided by Kaushik Jayaram. All Rights Reserved.

November 18, 2022

Fruit flies use corrective movements to maintain stability after injury
Janna Maranas, Penn State professor of chemical engineering, died on Nov. 3 at the age of 57. Credit: Image provided by Dr. Janna Maranas's family. All Rights Reserved.

November 18, 2022

Engineering community mourns death of Professor Janna Maranas

November 17, 2022

Despite the collective rampage against spotted lanternflies, the pests are here to stay
Researchers found that bats disrupted by a lack of habitat and food move near humans in agricultural and urban areas, where they can spread Hendra virus to horses and then people. Credit: Vlad Kutepov, Unsplash. All Rights Reserved.

November 17, 2022

To prevent next pandemic research suggests we need to restore wildlife habit
A multidisciplinary team found that a drug used to treat cholesterol could help neutralize off-target antibiotics and help prevent the development of antibiotic resistance. Credit: wildpixel/iStock. All Rights Reserved.

November 15, 2022

FDA-approved cholesterol medicine may help prevent antibiotic resistance
“Sometimes you have to run up a mountain to be able to see what some new opportunities are," said Tracy Langkilde, Verne M. Willaman Dean of the Eberly College of Science. "And when you’re standing there at this beautiful lookout, it makes it all worth it.” Credit: Michelle Bixby / Penn State. All Rights Reserved.

November 15, 2022

WATCH: Tracy Langkilde shares perspective on trail running and pursuing passions

November 14, 2022

Covid, gripe, RSV: a ‘triplademia’ que ameaça o planeta
In the Math for Sustainability general education course—currently taught by Assistant Teaching Professor of Mathematics Russ deForest—students learn a variety of quantitative skills that they can use to be active and engaged citizens. Credit: Michelle Bixby / Penn State. Creative Commons

November 14, 2022

Using sustainability to make introductory STEM courses meaningful
A new statistical method called CLIMB provides a more efficient way to uncover biologically meaningful changes in genomic data that span multiple conditions—such as gene regulation across tissue types. CLIMB first conducts a series of pairwise analyses. Then, it starts to construct “association vectors” that include all possible combinations of a subject’s status across each condition. Then, CLIMB eliminates any combination from the association vector that the pairwise analyses in Step 1 do not support. Finally, CLIMB performs a joint analysis, clustering together subjects that follow the same pattern across conditions. Credit: Qunhua Li research group / Penn State. All Rights Reserved.

November 14, 2022

New statistical method improves genomic analyses
Michael Axtell, holder of the Louis and Hedwig Sternberg Chair in Plant Biology. Credit: Penn State. Creative Commons

November 14, 2022

Michael Axtell named Louis and Hedwig Sternberg Chair in Plant Biology

November 12, 2022

Climate change prompts Pa. farmers to adapt crops and businesses
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November 11, 2022

Penn State community grieves loss of biomathematician Howard Weiss
Nikki Crowley Credit: Penn State / Penn State. Creative Commons

November 10, 2022

New research on effects of binge drinking earns biologist early career award
Wenyu Tu, co-author on the eLife paper and doctoral student in neuroscience in the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, sets up a functional MRI experiment. Functional MRI was used in conjunction with neuronal electrophysiology to identify a link between respiration and neural activity changes. Credit: Kelby Hochreither/Penn State. All Rights Reserved.

November 10, 2022

Breathing may measurably modulate neural responses across brain, study finds
Bordatella bronchiseptica shedding on BG-blood agar petri dishes. Examples of (a) supershedding event and (b) average shedding event. Credit: Isabella Cattadori, Penn State. All Rights Reserved.

November 09, 2022

Gut parasites may increase onward transmission of respiratory bugs in rabbits
Old Main on Penn State's University Park campus. Credit: Laura Waldhier / Penn State. Creative Commons

November 09, 2022

Penn State ranks 38th in new 'QS World University Rankings: Sustainability'
Retired Penn State faculty Robert and Peggy Schlegel, pictured here during a recent trip to campus, have endowed an early career professorship to attract researchers and teachers to the University. Credit: Michelle Bixby / Penn State. Creative Commons

November 09, 2022

Schlegels endow Early Career Professorship in biochemistry and molecular biology
New software being developed by a team of researchers at Penn State aims to prevent many of the hundreds of thousands of deaths suffered each year around the world by women during or after childbirth. Credit: Getty Images - FatCamera. All Rights Reserved.

November 08, 2022

High-tech tool to perform low-cost health screening for newborns and mothers
Randall McEntaffer, head of Penn State's Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, makes adjustments to the flight electronics and power supply of the X-ray spectrometer that he and his team built for a September launch with NASA. Credit: Patrick Mansell / Penn State. Creative Commons

November 08, 2022

Penn State’s $1.034B in research expenditures has broad, wide-ranging impact
Lead researcher Sarah Nilson, assistant professor of biology at Penn State Beaver, shows a ramp. Ramps are valued for their strong garlic-like aroma and delicious onion-like flavor. Credit: Penn State. Creative Commons

November 08, 2022

Ramped up: Higher demand for wild leeks has foragers overeager, threatens plant
Left: Todd LaJeunesse collecting fragments of coral from a shallow reef flat in Palau. Right: Caleb Bulter (center) with colleagues from University of Alabama, Birmingham processing coral samples in the Rock Island habitats of Palau. Credit: Credit: Kira Turnham (left) and Todd LaJeunesse (right). All Rights Reserved.

November 08, 2022

Professor of biology awarded Maskalick Biodiversity Seed Grant