Science News | Eberly College of Science

Food, not sex, drove the evolution of giraffes’ long neck, new study finds

Local disparities may prevent national vaccination efforts for rubella

Complete X and Y chromosome sequences of living great ape species determined

Awards and Honors, Research

$4M NASA grants to support UV and X-ray astronomy

Why is breaking down plant material for biofuels so slow?

Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance

Awards and Honors, Research

$20M NSF grant to support center to study how complex biological processes arise

Making light ‘feel’ a magnetic field like an electron would

Penn State, Morgan Advanced Materials partner to improve semiconductor materials

Brightest gamma-ray burst of all time aids search for origin of heavy elements

‘Surprising’ hidden activity of semiconductor material spotted by researchers

New sunflower family tree reveals multiple origins of flower symmetry