Intergalactic "Shot in the Dark" Shocks Astronomers
In this dramatic Hubble Space Telescope image, we see the "tidal tail" of the Tadpole Galaxy, UGC 10214.
Biocapture Surfaces Produced for Study of Brain Chemistry
A single layer of molecules (red lines) that resists biomolecule binding is first self-organized on a gold substrate. Credit: Mitchell J. Shuster and Thomas J. Mullen, Penn State
AccuWeather.com® Partners with Penn State to Take "Astronomy Center" Web Site to New Heights
Credit: NASA and G. Bacon (STScI)
Discovery Links Highest-Energy Cosmic Rays with Violent Black Holes
Credit: Pierre Auger Observatory A surface detector station with the Andes in the background
To Fight Disease, Animals, Like Plants, Can Tolerate Parasites
Flying Lemurs are the Closest Relatives of Primates
Credit: Norman Lim, National University of Singapore Colugo mother and baby (Cynocephalus variegatus) from southeast Asia
Penn State Profiles: Reka Albert, Model Researcher
A network-based model of guard cell signaling in plants, created by physicist Reka Albert in collaboration with plant physiologist Sarah Assmann. Drought conditions cause plants to produce the hormone abscisic acid (ABA, top), which triggers guard cells to close leaf pores (bottom), conserving water.
New Software Advances Photo Search and Management in Online Systems
Hair Untangles Woolly Mammoth Puzzle
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
Discovery May Help Defang Viruses
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