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Penn State plans to screen students for COVID-19 with a scratch-and-sniff test. Scientists say it could be better than taking temperatures

Farm tour highlights the need for agricultural research

Lead researcher Erynn Maynard-Bean trains Penn State undergraduate researcher Richard Novak to collect leaf phenology data during a field trip in 2016. IMAGE: WARREN REED/PENN STATE

Invasive shrubs in Northeast forests grow leaves earlier and keep them longer

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Podcast unpacks potential for social evolution in the midst of crisis

What happened to our butterflies this summer?

Are Neck Gaiters Really ‘the Worst’ COVID-19 Face Covering?

Lead researcher Joseph Amsili taking core samples of cover crops at the Russell E. Larson Agricultural Research Center. The study revealed that cover crop mixtures increased total carbon inputs to soil because they simultaneously had high root and shoot inputs and they promoted higher carbon inputs from residues left by the following corn cash crop. IMAGE: JASON KAYE RESEARCH GROUP, PENN STATE

Cover crop roots are key to understanding ecosystem services

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Physio Student Cesar Matamoros Receives USDA Predoctoral Fellowship and Sloan Scholarship

Jean-Paul Armache, assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular biology. IMAGE: NATE FOLLMER, PENN STATE

Determining how a coronavirus protein takes over human protein-making machinery

Students taking soil samples.

Flavonoids' presence in sorghum roots may lead to frost-resistant crop

Ticks and mosquitoes may await the pandemic-weary seeking outdoor exercise

5 lessons from the pandemic to tackle the climate crisis

Five new research collaborations between Penn State and minority-serving institutions selected to receive seed funding via the Inter-Institutional Partnerships for Diversifying Research program

Penn State Microbiome Center and GALT enter collaboration to advance research

Five new research collaborations between Penn State and minority-serving institutions selected to receive seed funding via the Inter-Institutional Partnerships for Diversifying Research program

Faculty teams awarded seed grants to fund biodevice development

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This rare, mutant honeybee is both male and female

Don’t Downplay the Role of Indigenous People in Molding the Ecological Landscape

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Gene-edited mosquitoes are ready for the U.S. — but is the U.S. ready for them?

'Murder hornet' mania highlights dangers of fearing insects and spiders

Family The Novel Coronavirus Belongs To Has Been Lurking In Bats For Decades

Cicadas abuzz around Western Pennsylvania as summer progresses

COVID-19 Likely Developed from Viruses ‘Circulating Unnoticed’ in Bats for Decades

It's time for America to reassert climate leadership. It starts with voting

The next coronavirus may already be circulating in bats, study suggests

By reconstructing the evolutionary history of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that is responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, an international research team of Chinese, European and U.S. scientists has discovered that the lineage that gave rise to the virus has been circulating in bats for decades and likely includes other viruses with the ability to infect humans. IMAGE: CREATIVENATURE_NL, ISTOCK

Researchers identify evolutionary origins of SARS-CoV-2