“I am excited to help establish LTPI as a world-class center, with internationally competitive faculty, exceptional postdoctoral researchers and a vibrant visitors’ program — an environment designed ...

About one-third of the food eaten by Americans comes from crops pollinated by honey bees, yet the insect is dying off at alarming rates. In one year alone, between April of 2019 and April of 2020, one ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — By combining forefront X-ray observations with state-of-the-art supercomputer simulations of the buildup of galaxies over cosmic history, researchers have provided the best ...

Professor Emeritus Michael Brin of the University of Maryland has endowed an international prize for outstanding work in the theory of dynamical systems and related areas. The prize is given for ...

Many materials store information about what has happened to them in a sort of material memory, like wrinkles on a once crumpled piece of paper. Now, a team led by Penn State physicists has uncovered ...

Bioluminescent bacteria and the Hawaiian bobtail squid have formed a longstanding mutually beneficial relationship. How the bacteria coordinate their behavior to colonize the squid—through cellular ...

For information about internships, check out the Office of Science Engagement’s webpage https://science.psu.edu/science-engagement about the science internship ...

About a thousand students each year pass through the sixth floor of Mueller Lab. Nestled among biology labs and study spaces, one lab in particular provides students with a unique opportunity to study ...

A new method improves the extraction and separation of rare earth elements—a group of 17 elements critical for technologies such as smart phones and electric car batteries—from unconventional sources.

Organic Chemistry Lab (Chem 213M) cohorts chemistry majors together in a project-based lab experience. The second floor of Whitmore offers a dedicated majors-only, research-grade organic lab space.

Two opposing evolutionary forces explain the presence of the two different colors of spotted salamander egg masses at ponds in Pennsylvania, according to a new study led by a Penn State biologist.

The Department of Physics welcomes its newest tenure-line faculty members. Thomas Iadecola, associate professor of physics, is a co-hire of the Penn State Institute for Computational and Data Sciences ...