Focus on Research: Research gives new hope for restoring cells in damaged brains and spinal cords
An artist's rendition of a human spinal cord. Credit: EMSL CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSE
Mathematical approach provides a new step in resolving the mystery of glass
Illustration of a Coulomb glass — a type of glass formed by electrons in disordered material: Electrons (red) in a random landscape, interacting with each other (yellow-orange lines). New research led by researchers at Penn State and the Argonne National Laboratory makes an important step towards understanding the mysterious properties of glasses. Credit: Argonne National Laboratory
New science from Einstein's greatest discovery is the theme of the 2015 Penn State Lectures on the Frontiers of Science
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$15 million research grant awarded to Penn State Center for Nanoscience
Image captions from upper left, clockwise: 1) A high-performance ferroelectric material that may find application in future low-loss, high-frequency cellular networks. 2) Time-lapse image of the collective expansion of a swarm of self-propelled nanomotors. 3) Newly discovered roto-distortion symmetry of an oxide lattice. 4) A porous nanostructure of semiconducting germanium (orange) infiltrated into a lattice of nanoscale silica spheres (purple). Image: Penn State University
Research in Action: With New Grant, Penn State Aims to Bring Next-Generation DNA Sequencing to Working Crime Laboratories
Jenifer Smith, Professor of Practice in the Department of Forensic Science, is Penn State’s lead investigator on this grant.
Huge New Astronomy Database Now Available to the Public
Click on the image for a high-resolution version. A still photo from an animated flythrough of the universe using SDSS data. This image shows our Milky Way Galaxy. The galaxy shape is an artist's conception, and each of the small white dots is one of the hundreds of thousands of stars as seen by the SDSS. Image credits: Dana Berry / SkyWorks Digital, Inc. and Jonathan Bird (Vanderbilt University)
Acoustic tweezers manipulate cell-to-cell contact
Series of micrographs showing cells touching and oriented in straight lines, clumps or triangles. Credit: Tonly Jun Huang/Penn State
Living African group discovered to be the most populous humans over the last 150,000 years
Hunter of the Ju/'hoansi tribe in the Namibian Bush. Photo Credit: Stephan C. Schuster, Penn State University
Eight Penn State researchers named AAAS Fellows
Top row from left: Craig Eugene Cameron, Douglas R. Cavener, Joanna Floros, Andrea M. Mastro; Bottom row from left: B. Franklin Pugh, Teh-hui Kao, Christine Dolan Keating, Michael T. Green
NASA's Swift Satellite Marks 10 Years of Game-changing Astrophysics: Mission Control Is at Penn State
In the most common type of gamma-ray burst, illustrated here, a dying massive star forms a black hole (left), which drives a particle jet into space. Light across the spectrum arises from hot gas near the black hole, collisions within the jet, and through the jet's interaction with its surroundings. Image Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
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