Predicting the Future of Antarctic Ice
Earth's Antarctic Ice Sheet. Image credit: NASA/GRACE team/DLR/Ben Holt Sr.
Smallest Possible Diamonds Form Ultra-thin Nanothreads
Diamond nanothreads promise extraordinary properties, including strength and stiffness greater than that of today's strongest nanotubes and polymers. Credit: John Badding Lab, Penn State University
Mystery of rare 5-hour space explosion explained with help from US/Russia and US/UK/Italy satellites
The X-ray image from the Swift X-ray Telescope of the gamma-ray burst GRB 130925. The white object in the center is the gamma-ray burst. The large diffuse region to the right is a cluster of galaxies. The other objects are X-ray-emitting celestial objects, most likely supermassive black holes at the centers of distant galaxies. The full image is approximately the size of the full moon. Credit: Phil Evans/ University of Leicester
Rethinking the Basic Science of Graphene Synthesis
A model of the intercalation of Brønsted acid molecules between single-atomic layers of graphene. Credit: Mallouk Lab, Penn State University
Zombie ant fungi 'know' brains of their hosts
A dead ant manipulated by a species of so-called zombie ant fungus clings to a twig in a South Carolina forest. Newly published Penn State research represents the first extensive study of zombie ants in North America.
Hot-spring bacteria reveal ability to use far-red light for photosynthesis
Fluorescence image of microcolonies of the Leptolyngbya sp. strain JSC-1 of cyanobacteria cells (JSC-1) collected from a hot spring near Yellowstone National Park. The image shows that the cells grow toward the light when light is provided only from above. Credit: Igor I. Brown, a research fellow at NASA JSC
Penn State is a Member of the New $678 million Telescope Now Approved for Construction
Click on the image for a high-resolution version. Artist's drawing of LSST in profile. Credit: Todd Mason, Mason Productions Inc. / LSST Corporation
Pygmy phenotype developed many times, adaptive to rainforest
A Batwa woman and her child in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park, Uganda. Image: Photo courtesy of George Perry/Penn State
Penn State Joins New Project to Map the Universe
The new SDSS will measure spectra at multiple points in the same galaxy, using a newly created fiber bundle technology. Credit: Dana Berry / SkyWorks Digital, Inc., David Law, SDSS Collaboration Hubble Space Telescope image credit: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration, and A. Evans (University of Virginia, Charlottesville/NRAO/Stony Brook University)
Impact of Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill on Coral Communities Is Deeper and Broader than Predicted
A colony of coral from a newly discovered coral community with attached anemones and brittle stars from a site 6 km from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill site. The patchy brown growth on the normally gold-colored coral is not found on healthy colonies and is diagnostic for corals impacted during the spill. Credit: Fisher lab, Penn State University
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