New planet found to be hotter than most stars
A newly discovered Jupiter-like world is so hot that even its nights are like the flame of a welding torch. Planet KELT-9b is hotter than most stars. With a day-side temperature of more than 7,800 degrees Fahrenheit (4,600 Kelvin), it is only about 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit (1,200 Kelvin) cooler than our own sun. Credit: R. Hurt (IPAC), NASA/JPL-Caltech
Low cost, scalable water-splitting fuels the future hydrogen economy
Molecular models representing a 2D heterostructure made of graphene (gray background hexagonal lattice), and islands on top of hexagonal WS2 and MoS, as well as an alloy of the two. Water (H2O) molecules in red (oxygen) and gray (hydrogen) come from the bottom left hand side and get transformed catalytically after interacting with the heterostructures into H2 bubbles (top right hand side). Credit: Terrones Group/Penn State
New gravity waves hit Earth after record-breaking trip through space
This artist's conception shows two merging black holes similar to those detected by LIGO. Image: LIGO/Caltech/MIT/Sonoma State (Aurore Simonnet)
Penn State DNA ladders: inexpensive molecular rulers for DNA research
Gel electrophoresis images of the two Penn State DNA ladders created by cutting the pPSU1 and pPSU2 plasmids with restriction enzymes. The 100-base-pair (bp) ladder is designed to be used with both agarose and acrylamide gels. Credit: Tan Laboratory, Penn State University
Simpson Lecture Set for May 25
Richard Young
Lessons from Ebola: New approach improves disease outbreak management
Response volunteers in Nigeria gather during the 2014 Ebola outbreak. A new study used models created during the 2014 outbreak to develop a new approach to information gathering that could save lives. Credit: CDC Global
Rao Prize Conference on May 12, 2017 features statistics prize winner
Penn State and Geisinger team up in new program to train next generation of biomedical scientists
Disease-associated genes routinely missed in some genetic studies
Low Coverage Genes in Whole-Exome Sequencing: Researchers identified 832 genes that have low coverage across multiple sequencing platforms.
Joseph Ecker to present Chemerda Lectures in Science on April 24 and 25, 2017
Chemerda Ecker 2017
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