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Although the researchers looked far back into time in conducting their study, they suggest the findings may have implications for the future. Credit: Manfred Richter from Pixabay. All Rights Reserved.

Aug 18, 2025

Corn root traits evolved with both human-driven, natural environmental changes

Study shows plants adapted to farming and irrigation with root changes that helped corn adjust to low nitrogen and deeper water, making them key to the success of its domestication.

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Aug 18, 2025

Eberly College introduces Science Matters: Spotlight Sessions outreach events

The Penn State Eberly College of Science is introducing a new series of outreach events — titled Science Matters: Spotlight Sessions — to provide a unique opportunity for the community to engage directly with the brilliant minds working on the front lines of discovery to create positive, real-world impact.

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Penn State’s Roar supercomputer, housed within the Institute for Computational and Data Sciences (ICDS), enables researchers across the University to conduct complex simulations, calculations and analyses on a large scale, something a personal computer is not capable of. Ed O'Brien and Romit Maulik, ICDS co-hires, recently spoke to Penn State News about the need for and benefit of using high-performance computing resources to complete challenging inter- and multi-disciplinary research projects. Credit: ICDS/Ryan Antion / Penn State. All Rights Reserved.

Aug 18, 2025

Q&A: Boosting research with supercomputing

In this Q&A, ICDS co-hires like Ed O’Brien, professor of chemistry in the Eberly College of Science, and Romit Maulik, assistant professor in the College of Information Sciences and Technology, spoke about how they use Roar’s HPC services.

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The treatment is used to control northern fowl mites, a blood-feeding parasite that can lead to health problems and lower egg production in chickens and other poultry. Credit: Zachariah Smith on Unsplash. All Rights Reserved.

Aug 14, 2025

Northern fowl mite treatment tested at Penn State receives FDA approval

A new way to treat poultry for fowl mites was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in July, thanks in part to a team of researchers in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences.

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The findings provide a better understanding of the viruses that could help lead to better disease control in the future, according to the researchers. Credit: meriç tuna on Unsplash. All Rights Reserved.

Aug 13, 2025

Study offers new insight into mixed virus interactions in plants

New research led by researchers at Penn State examined what happens when two common viruses — tomato spotted wilt orthotospovirus (TSWV) and impatiens necrotic spot orthotospovirus (INSV) — infect the same plant.

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Invent Penn State’s NSF I-Corps Short Course is accepting applications for its virtual September cohort. Participant must apply and complete a self-guided I-Corps prep mini-course by Friday, Sept. 5. Credit: Penn State. Creative Commons

Aug 13, 2025

Turn research into impact: Apply now for Penn State NSF I-Corps short course

Invent Penn State’s NSF I-Corps Short Course is accepting applications for its virtual September cohort. The no-cost program helps researchers test a startup idea through customer interviews and educational programming on the lean startup methodology.

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A new study led by Penn State researchers shows for the first time how sound waves could function as a means of controlling micro-sized robots. Credit: Igor Aronson / Penn State. Creative Commons

Aug 12, 2025

Tiny robots use sound to self-organize into intelligent groups

Microrobots modeled in simulations communicate via sound to form ‘acoustic swarms’ and move collectively.

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This large American Elm tree stands on the Penn State Beaver campus near the Laboratory Classroom Building. American Elm trees are now considered rare after its population was ravaged by Dutch elm disease. Credit: Kristen Doerschner / Penn State Beaver / Penn State. Creative Commons

Aug 12, 2025

Tree inventory creates map of campus foliage at Penn State Beaver

Penn State Beaver joined the Commonwealth Arboreta Network as Bartlett Tree Experts recently mapped campus trees as part of an ongoing initiative across all Commonwealth Campuses.

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Recently identified and long-lasting type of protein misfolding — non-native entanglements — observed in all-atom protein folding simulations. Representative misfolded conformations of the small proteins, Ubiquitin and λ-repressor, exhibit gains-of-entanglement in all-atom folding simulations and are shown alongside their native structures. In the misfolded states, non-native entangled loops are highlighted in red, with yellow spheres marking loop closures and blue segments indicating threading through the loop. Credit: O’Brien Laboratory / Penn State. Creative Commons

Aug 08, 2025

New class of protein misfolding simulated in high definition

New computer simulations that model every atom of a protein as it folds into its final three-dimensional form support the existence of a recently identified type of protein misfolding.

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Aug 04, 2025

Huck names new associate director for graduate education

Penn State Professor of Anthropology David Puts has been named the associate director for graduate education at the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences.

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