Wasps harness power of pitcher plants in first-ever observed defense strategy
cynipid wasp
New material may offer key to solving quantum computing issue
lego bricks illustrating components of material
Research Lab profile: The Fenton Group
Fenton lab
Discovery of massive early galaxies defies prior understanding of the universe
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Six massive galaxies in the early universe discovered by a team including Penn Staters are changing understanding of the origins of galaxies

NASA’s James Webb Telescope uncovers new details in Pandora’s Cluster
image of pandora's cluster from james webb telescope

The latest deep field image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope features new details in Pandora’s Cluster.

DNA stuck in the gears of the RNA production machine
Cartoon of the nucleotide addition cycle of bacterial RNA polymerase, showing mechanism of transcription pausing

Penn State researchers have worked out the mechanism of transcription pausing in some bacteria using cryo-electron microscopy

Improving heart health by diversifying genetic data
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Penn State statistician Xiang Zhu studies the genetics of heart disease in diverse populations to improve heart health for everyone.

Research Lab Profile: The Freedman Group
miriam freedman
Honey bee colony loss in the U.S. linked to mites, extreme weather, and pesticides
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A new Penn State study is the first to concurrently consider a variety of potential honey bee stressors at a national scale.

Emergent behavior observed in self-interacting light
Schematic of waveguides through glass and measured light intensity per waveguide showing fractionalization

Photons that are forced to interact with each other through waveguides demonstrate behavior evocative of the fractional quantum Hall effect

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