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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

In the evolution of walking, the hip bone connected to the rib bones

Two keys needed to crack three locks for better engineered blood vessels

Awards and Honors, Research

$1.6 M from NSF to improve models that inform marine protected areas

NASA’s Chandra identifies a black hole whose bark is worse than its bite