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$20M NSF grant to support center to study how complex biological processes arise
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circle with wedges containing images of molecular functions
Making light ‘feel’ a magnetic field like an electron would
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Scanning electron microscope image of a strained photonic crystal
Penn State, Morgan Advanced Materials partner to improve semiconductor materials
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Penn State and Morgan Advanced Materials Representatives

Penn State and Morgan Advanced Materials have signed a memorandum of understanding to catalyze research and development of SiC.

Brightest gamma-ray burst of all time aids search for origin of heavy elements
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illustration of gamma ray burst
‘Surprising’ hidden activity of semiconductor material spotted by researchers
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Venkatraman Gopalan in lab
New sunflower family tree reveals multiple origins of flower symmetry
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Images of flowers in the sunflower family showing different types of symmetry

A new sunflower family tree, using skimmed genomes to increase the number of species, revealed that flower symmetry evolved multiple times

In the evolution of walking, the hip bone connected to the rib bones
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Two views of a new reconstruction of the skeleton of the fossil fish, Tiktaalik roseae

Micro-CT scans reveal bones hidden in rock for new reconstruction of the skeleton of the fossil fish, Tiktaalik roseae.

Two keys needed to crack three locks for better engineered blood vessels
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Tubular-like vessels in a dish

Penn State researchers identify molecular signals that can mature nascent stem cells into the endothelial cells that comprise blood vessels.

$1.6 M from NSF to improve models that inform marine protected areas
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Eric Crandall
NASA’s Chandra identifies a black hole whose bark is worse than its bite
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Radio data and X-rays from the quasar H1821+643

Using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers have revealed that a brilliant supermassive black hole is not living up to expectations.

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