Search for Advanced Materials Aided by Discovery of Hidden Symmetries in Nature
A lattice composed of columns of squares that represent repeating molecular structures, one rotated clockwise (colored blue) and another counterclockwise (colored orange) with respect to each other. Credit: Penn State University, Gopalan lab, Ryan Haislmaier
Butterfly Study Reveals Traits and Genes Associated with Establishment of New Populations
A Glanville fritillary butterfly. Credit: James Marden, Penn State
New Kind of Optical Fiber Developed
Mimicking Photosynthesis May Hold Key to Cheap Hydrogen for Fuel
Mimicking Photosynthesis May Hold Key to Cheap Hydrogen for Fuel. Credit: EERE, courtesy Wikimedia Commons
Multiple Approaches Necessary to Tackle World's Food Problems
"We need to adapt current crops to higher temperatures and less water and we need to domesticate plants that have evolved to grow at high temperatures and in salty soils," says Fedoroff. Credit: Cgoodwin, via Wikimedia Commons
Invasive Plants Can Create Positive Ecological Change
Credit: Tomás Carlo, Penn State
Largest Color Image of the Sky Ever Made is Released by Team that Includes Penn State Astronomers
This illustration shows the wealth of information on scales both small and large available in the SDSS-III's new image. Credit: M. Blanton and the SDSS-III
Penn State Participates in the Release of The Largest Color Image of the Sky Ever Made
This illustration shows the wealth of information on scales both small and large available in the SDSS-III's new image. Credit: M. Blanton and the SDSS-III
"Epidemic: Infectious Disease on a Changing Planet" is Focus of 2011 Penn State Lectures on the Frontiers of Science
Picture of audience for one of the 2007 Frontiers lectures
Penn State Science is Among the Best in the United States, National Research Council Study Shows
Penn State's Graduate School Commencement, 2009
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