Researchers are Finalists for Time's 'Top 100 Most Influential' List
Penn State University genomicists Webb Miller and Stephan C. Schuster, in front of the Roche / 454 Life Sciences' Genome Sequencer 20 System that was used to sequence mammoth mitochondrial DNA from the hair of 10 woolly mammoths. Credit: Lynn Tomsho, Penn State
Hundreds of Natural-Selection Studies Could be Wrong, Study Demonstrates
The image depicts the structure of the bovine rhodopsin protein. The blue circles represent amino acid sites that have undergone natural selection as determined through experiments, while the red circles represent amino acid sites that have undergone natural selection as determined through statistical analyses. Credit: Masafumi Nozawa, Penn State (Adapted from Yokoyama et al. 2008 PNAS)
A New Family of Molecules for Self-Assembly: The Carboranes
Schematic showing relative dipole orientations for the carboranethiol isomers, M1 and M9. Credit: J. Nathan Hohman, Penn State
Probing Question: Could the Large Hadron Collider create a black hole that would swallow the Earth?
Particle detector at the Large Hadron Collider. Credit: CERN
Geriatric Pulsar Discovered and Found Still Kicking
The composite image on the left shows an image from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory in purple and an optical image from the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) in red, blue and white. Credits: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Penn State/G.Pavlov et al.; Optical: ESO/VLT/UCL/R.Mignani et al; Illustration: CXC/M. Weiss
Research Feature: Trouble in Paradise
Todd LaJeunesse peering into a tide pool.
Researchers Discover Biomarker Linked to Aggressive Prostate Cancer
Researchers Discover Biomarker Linked to Aggressive Prostate Cancer
Molecular Machines Drive Plasmonic Nanoswitches
Gamma-Ray Fireworks Now Erupting from Rare Stellar Object
Credit: NASA/Swift/Jules Halpern (Columbia Univ.)
Scientists Find New Way to Produce Hydrogen
Castleman_Alum. clusters reacting with water
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