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Stephen Hambric, an Acoustics faculty member, was among the engineers stationed on the field at Beaver Stadium to measure crowd noise at Saturday night's Iowa-Penn State football game.
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The honeybee's alarm signal may not only bring help, but also attract this small hive beetle pest according to research conducted by James H. Tumlinson, the Ralph O. Mumma Professor of Entomology and director of the Penn State Center for Chemical Ecology.
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Hidden Fault May Contribute to Bay Area Earthquake Risk
Map of Faults in the San Francisco Area
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Amaya Garcia, a member of the team that discovered the new bacterium, stands next to the colorful microbial mats in Octopus Spring in Yellowstone National Park. he discovery of the chlorophyll-producing bacterium, Candidatus Chloracidobacterium (Cab.) thermophilum, will be described in the July 27 issue of the journal Science in a paper led by Don Bryant, Ernest C. Pollard professor of... Read more ›
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Terry Engelder shows the natural hydrolic fractures that occured in this shale sample.
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The skeletal remains found in a cave on the island of Flores, Indonesia, do not represent a new species, according to an international scientific team, lead by Dr. Robert B. Eckhardt, professor of developmental genetics and evolutionary morphology, Department of Kinesiology at Penn State.
LB1 in three different views to illustrate facial asymmetry. A is the actual specimen, B is the... Read more ›
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A blast of the brightest X-rays ever detected from beyond our Milky Way galaxy's neighborhood temporarily blinded the X-ray eye on NASA's Swift space observatory earlier this summer, astronomers now report. The burst, named GRB 100621A, is the brightest X-ray source that Swift has detected since the observatory began X-ray observation in early 2005.
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Tracy Langkilde captures a fence lizard using a little noose tied to the end of a pole. Penn State Assistant Professor of Biology Tracy Langkilde has shown that native fence lizards in the southeastern United States are adapting to potentially fatal invasive fire-ant attacks by developing behaviors that enable them to escape from the ants, as well as by developing longer hind legs, which can... Read more ›
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Penn State University genomicists Webb Miller and Stephan C. Schuster, in front of the Roche / 454 Life Sciences' Genome Sequencer 20 System that was used to sequence mammoth mitochondrial DNA from the hair of 10 woolly mammoths.
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Swift Satellite launch
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Pollution from a common herbicide might be causing die-offs in stream salamanders, according to Jason R. Rohr, research associate at the Penn State Institutes of Energy and the Environment.
adult streamside salamanders (Ambystoma barbouri)
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Scanning Electron Microscopy image of carbon dioxide sequestered in treated serpentine minerals. Crystals shown here are primarily nesquehonite.
Research total expenditures
Total research expenditures for 2000-2010
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Paul Helton, one of the study participants, examines whole-grain foods and the refined foods used in the research. The study found that diets with high amounts of whole grains may help achieve significant weight loss, and also reduce the risk of chronic diseases such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
Wednesday, January 20, 2021
