Complex nerve-cell signaling traced back to common ancestor of humans and sea anemones
Sea anemone. Credit: Steve Rupp, National Science Foundation
Dragonfly gut infections suggest environmental role in obesity
With a grant from the National Science Foundation, a team led by Penn State researcher Ruud Schilder will examine whether the environmental conditions in which dragonflies live (left) make them susceptible to infectious protozoan parasites. Right: A dragonfly gut containing protozoans.Credit: Jim Marden, Penn State
Research in Action: NSF Grant Helps to Further the Search for Earthlike Exoplanets
Jason Wright
Research in Action: NIJ Grant Allows Penn State Scientists to Explore Heteroplasmic Variants in Mitochondrial DNA
Mitchell Holland, associate professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, is the lead investigator on the grant.
Focus on Research: Research gives new hope for restoring cells in damaged brains and spinal cords
An artist's rendition of a human spinal cord. Credit: EMSL CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSE
Mathematical approach provides a new step in resolving the mystery of glass
Illustration of a Coulomb glass — a type of glass formed by electrons in disordered material: Electrons (red) in a random landscape, interacting with each other (yellow-orange lines). New research led by researchers at Penn State and the Argonne National Laboratory makes an important step towards understanding the mysterious properties of glasses. Credit: Argonne National Laboratory
New science from Einstein's greatest discovery is the theme of the 2015 Penn State Lectures on the Frontiers of Science
Penn State Lectures on the Frontiers of Science logo
$15 million research grant awarded to Penn State Center for Nanoscience
Image captions from upper left, clockwise: 1) A high-performance ferroelectric material that may find application in future low-loss, high-frequency cellular networks. 2) Time-lapse image of the collective expansion of a swarm of self-propelled nanomotors. 3) Newly discovered roto-distortion symmetry of an oxide lattice. 4) A porous nanostructure of semiconducting germanium (orange) infiltrated into a lattice of nanoscale silica spheres (purple). Image: Penn State University
Research in Action: With New Grant, Penn State Aims to Bring Next-Generation DNA Sequencing to Working Crime Laboratories
Jenifer Smith, Professor of Practice in the Department of Forensic Science, is Penn State’s lead investigator on this grant.
Huge New Astronomy Database Now Available to the Public
Click on the image for a high-resolution version. A still photo from an animated flythrough of the universe using SDSS data. This image shows our Milky Way Galaxy. The galaxy shape is an artist's conception, and each of the small white dots is one of the hundreds of thousands of stars as seen by the SDSS. Image credits: Dana Berry / SkyWorks Digital, Inc. and Jonathan Bird (Vanderbilt University)
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