Finding the proteins that unpack DNA
DNA is typically wrapped tightly around proteins called histones (colored) to form a nucleosome, a structure that condenses DNA strands to fit in a cell’s nucleus. A new method allows scientists to identify specialized proteins called nucleosome-displacing factors that unwrap these nucleosomes, making the usually dense DNA more accessible for gene expression and other functions. Image: Karolin Luger
Capturing light in a waveguide array: Confined, insensitive light could improve lasers, solar cells
Abhay Ashtekar honored as an Evan Pugh Professor
Abhay Ashtekar
Eberly College of Science undergraduate to conduct engineering research in Japan
Penn State student Benjamin Piazza will spend three months in Japan studying the nation's culture and conducting research on quantum devices. Image: Jeff Rice
Seven faculty from the Eberly College of Science featured on Clarivate Analytics’ 2017 Highly Cited Researchers List
Jan Winter 2018 Science Journal Cover bench bedside
Ultra-cold atoms chilled and trapped with light enable unimaginable discoveries
David Weiss
Winter 2018: About this Photo
instrument in Davey Lab
New $18M facility catalyzes synthesis and novel study of 2D materials
This sophisticated apparatus in Davey Lab will allow scientists to create new two-dimensional materials and study them, still in vacuum, at the atomic scale. Photo credit: Nate Follmer
Alumna Sylvia Biscoveanu awarded Soros Fellowship
Sylvia Biscoveanu
Penn State to participate in consortium to demonstrate remote monitoring of nuclear reactors
Boulby potash, polyhalite and salt mine on the northeast coast of England is Great Britain's deepest mine and the home of the Science and Technology Facilities Council’s Boulby Underground Laboratory. The mine, operated by ICL-UK /Cleveland Potash Ltd, is expected to be the site of the Advanced Instrumentation Testbed project, a new international multi-laboratory and university collaboration for nonproliferation research.
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