Coral conservation efforts aided by computer simulations: New research shows that endangered corals in the eastern Pacific Ocean are isolated from healthy coral populations in the west
Coral releasing egg/sperm bundles which will be fertilised in the water to form poppy-seed-sized larvae. Credit: Jamie Craggs, Project Coral, Horniman Museum and Gardens
Record-breaking map of 1.2-million galaxies now ready to reveal secrets of dark energy
This image shows one slice through the map of the large-scale structure of the universe from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and its Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey. Image credit: Daniel Eisenstein and SDSS-III
New NSF Grant Aims To Learn More About Operator Algebras
Nate Brown, professor of mathematics and principal investigator on the grant, works on understanding operator algebras.
AstroFest 2016 is Four Evenings of Astronomy Activities and Stargazing During Arts Festival
AstroFest T-shirt Design
New clues could help scientists harness the power of photosynthesis
Model of the newly-identified clorophyll f synthase enzyme that converts chlorophyll a into chlorophyll f. The model is based on the known structure of the Photosystem II reaction center -- a core unit of the machinery of photosynthesis to which the enzyme is related. The bright green molecules near the bottom of the structure represent chlorophyll a molecules that would be modified in light to produce chlorophyll f. Credit: Bryant lab, Penn State University
Discovered: How to unlock inaccessible genes
This image shows the binding profile of chromatin remodelers on 12,000 distinct genes. The researchers used bioinformatics tools to visualize a great number of genes, here aligned by their promoters and arranged according to their nucleosome distribution. Credit: Matthieu Gérard, University of Paris-Sud
Penn State, TB Alliance, and GSK Partner to Discover New Treatment Options for Tuberculosis
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Kenneth Keiler and biochemistry, microbiology, and molecular biology graduate student Farina Haque work in Keiler's lab.
New, better way to build circuits for world's first useful quantum computers
The research team led by David Weiss at Penn State University performed a specific single quantum operation on individual atoms in a P-S-U pattern on three separate planes stacked within a cube-shaped arrangement. Credit: David Weiss lab, Penn State University
Fastest-spinning brown-dwarf star is detected by its bursts of radio waves
An artist's impression of a brown dwarf star. Credit: R. Hurt/NASA.
New gravitational-wave finder scores again
Aerial view of the LIGO gravitational wave detector in Livingston, Louisiana. Credit: LIGO.
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