When on-campus labs were effectively shuttered in early 2020, scientists scrambled to find ways to continue their work. Biochemists and molecular biologists, in particular, struggled without the use ...

Thanks to a partnership with the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), Science-U is fostering a new generation of environmentalists, allowing K–12 students to ask questions and ...

One of the many ways that research can make an impact on everyday life or address societal challenges is through a process called translation, an early part of technology transfer, where novel ideas ...

Sharing disappointing results with a world of researchers working to find what they hope with be the “discovery of the century” isn’t an easy task, but that is what Penn State theoretical physicist ...

The BMMB Climate and Diversity Committee strives to foster an inclusive community within the department, where everyone is given respect. We acknowledge the adversities faced disproportionately by ...

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This year, the world is marking the 100th anniversary of quantum mechanics, the beginning of a scientific revolution so important that it prompted the United Nations to declare 2025 as the ...

NIkki Crowley, director of the Penn State Neuroscience Institute at University Park. “Neuroscience as we know it is a baby science; it’s quite new,” said Nikki Crowley, Huck Early Career Chair in ...

The Penn State Pulsar Search Collaboratory visits the Green Bank Observatory in West Virginia. Members of the student organization obtain research credit by searching for signs of pulsars in the data ...

Even if we can’t see them, microorganisms are everywhere, inextricably linked to life on Earth at every level. They range from pathogenic bacteria and viruses that can make us sick to the microbes ...

Ten percent of adolescents and young adults aged 12 to 20, whose brains are still developing, report drinking alcohol, with 90% of their consumption being binge drinking, according to the National ...

The unusual radio pulses were detected by the Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA) experiment, a range of instruments flown on balloons high above Antarctica that are designed to detect radio ...