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Could India Really Be More Immune to Coronavirus Because of Its Warm Climate?

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Nineteen Penn State students from Six Departments Earn Prestigious CSL Behring Scholarships in Industrial Biotechnology

Imtiaz Ahmad

Imtiaz Ahmad Represents Microbiome Center at Plant and Animal Genome Conference

It's OK to feed wild birds – here are some tips for doing it the right way

Coronavirus: 7 Reasons Why Nigerians Shouldn’t Panic

Workers' entitlements, risks for infants and why we're not restricting travel - Answers to our readers' Covid-19 questions

Will Warmer Weather Stop the Spread of the Coronavirus? Don't Count on It, Say Experts

New Faculty Profile: Margarita Lopez-Uribe

Andrew Zydney (left) in a lab in the Chemical and Biomedical Engineering Building with chemical engineering graduate students Neil Taylor and Kaitlyn Brickey. IMAGE: TYLER HENDERSON

Chemical engineering professor receives membrane research award

Extreme locust plague shown swarming Kenya in new video

What are viruses anyway, and why do they make us so sick? 5 questions answered

How COVID-19 Is Spread

A locust swarm in northeast Kenya. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization has warned that the swarms already seen in Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia could range farther afield. IMAGE: SVEN TORFINN/FAO

Penn State responds: App aids UN efforts to control Africa's locust infestation

What are viruses anyway, and why do they make us so sick? 5 questions answered

What are viruses anyway, and why do they make us so sick? 5 questions answered

n illustration of the ultrastructural morphology exhibited by coronaviruses. A novel coronavirus has caused an outbreak of respiratory illness, named COVID-19, which was first detected in Wuhan, China, in 2019. IMAGE: CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL; ALISSA ECKERT, MS; DAN HIGGINS, MAM.

Penn State joins global effort for open access to emerging coronavirus research

Experts weigh in on how coronavirus may, or may not, run rampant in US in coming months

Setting the Record Straight: Panic and Pandemics

Can Coronavirus Be Crushed By Warmer Weather?

Will Arizona's Summer Heat Knock Down COVID-19?

Climate Change Has Driven Serious Declines in World’s Bumblebees

The parasitic plant witchweed, which has bright flowers, has a variety of hosts, including the important cereal crop sorghum. A new study reveals that sorghum plants where witchweed is most prevalent are locally adapted to deal with the parasite by having a mutation in the LGS1 gene. IMAGE: S.M. RUNO, KENYATTA UNIVERSITY

Local genetic adaption helps sorghum crop hide from witchweed

Coronavirus Researchers Are Using High-Tech Methods to Predict Where the Virus Might Go Next

Coronavirus super-spreaders pose urgent threat and need to be tracked