Scientists Use Skin Cells to Study Autism in a Petri Dish
Neurons generated from Rett-iPS cells form fewer synapses, the specialized signal transmission points between brain cells. Synapses are shown in red and dendrites, which function as signal receivers, are shown in green. Image courtesy of Dr. Carol Marchetto, Salk Institute for Biological Studies.
Scientists Demystify an Enzyme Responsible for Drug and Food Metabolism
Enzymes in the family named P450 are responsible for metabolizing many commonly used drugs. Credit: Ragesoss, via Wikimedia Commons
Scientists Discover How the Songbird's Brain Controls Timing During Singing
Adult zebra finch. Credit: Alfonso Jr. via Wikimedia Commons.
Scientists Discover Dying Corals and Creatures Near Deep Water Horizon Oil-Spill Site in the Gulf
A portion of one of the impacted corals and two attached brittle starfish. Credit: Lophelia II 2010, NOAA OER, and BOEMRE, copyright WHOI.
Penn State Forensic Scientists to Study Reliability of Fingerprint Identification Techniques
Forensic Science Students to Defrost Cold Case from 1975
Penn State to Lead $7.3-Million Project to Reveal Genes of the Most Ancient Living Lineage of Flowering Plants
Flower of the Amborella plant
Flowering Plants Have Evolved Multiple Genes to Prevent Inbreeding
A close-up photo of a Petunia flower showing the green pistil surrounded closely by white anthers. Credit: Ken-ichi Kubo
Japanese and U.S. Space Telescopes Reveal Previously Unknown Brilliant X-Ray Explosion in Our Milky Way Galaxy
Credit: JAXA/RIKEN/MAXI team
$8-Million National Science Foundation Grant for International Dark-Energy Project Includes Penn State Scientists
Artist's concept of the upgraded Hobby-Eberly Telescope. The VIRUS spectrographs are contained in the curved gray "saddlebags" on the side of the telescope. They receive light through the green cables, which contain bundles of fiber-optic lines. This illustration shows the telescope without its enclosing dome. Credit: McDonald Observatory/HETDEX Collaboration
Probing Question - What is a Near Earth?
Arecibo Radio Telescope in Arecibo, Puerto Rico; Credit Wikimedia Commons
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