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July 25, 2025

How Worried Should You Be About Ticks?
Predicting vaccination levels without accurate or timely vaccination data

July 25, 2025

Predicting vaccination levels without accurate or timely vaccination data
Group photo of Forest Genetics 2025 attendees standing on the steps of Penn State's Agricultural Science and Industry building

July 24, 2025

Huck Students impress at Forest Genetics conference

July 24, 2025

Multistate study targets herbicide-resistant weeds in soybeans
Seasonal flu immunity protects against severe illness from bird flu in ferrets

July 23, 2025

Seasonal flu immunity protects against severe illness from bird flu in ferrets
device is similar to a pregnancy test, showing two lines if the biomarker is detected in the sample.

July 22, 2025

Next-gen tech can detect disease biomarker in period blood
Microbiome researchers Jasna Kovac, left, and Seth Bordenstein, right

July 22, 2025

$2.6M NIH grant to fund new microbiome sciences training program at Penn State

July 22, 2025

How small temperature shifts lead to more blooms and bees
A grant from the Morris Animal Foundation will support research at Penn State on the health of amphibians. Credit: Contributed photo. All Rights Reserved.

July 22, 2025

National foundation grant to support study on amphibian health at Penn State
The researchers simulated corn production in 38,572 locations under the six nuclear war scenarios of increasing severity. Because of the crop’s global significance, the researchers chose to model corn’s collapse in a nuclear winter to represent the expected fate of agriculture overall. Credit: crisserbug/Getty Images. All Rights Reserved.

July 21, 2025

Simulating the unthinkable: Models show nuclear winter food production plunge
Matt Langland, who recently graduated from Penn State with a bachelor’s degree in environmental resource management, examines salt-encrusted soils in New Mexico's migratory bird habitats. Credit: Contributed photo. All Rights Reserved.

July 16, 2025

College of Ag Sciences grant program supports student learning, experiences
Nanyin Zhang, the Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Chair in Brain Imaging and professor of biomedical engineering, of electrical engineering and of engineering science and mechanics; Patrick Drew, professor of engineering science and mechanics, of biomedical engineering, of neurosurgery and of biology; and Nikki Crowley, associate professor of biology and of biomedical engineering, Huck Early Career Chair in Neurobiology and Neural Engineering and director of the Penn State Neuroscience Institute at University Park, received a three-year, $1.2 million grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation to gain insight into the purpose of dreams. Credit: Keith Hickey/Penn State. All Rights Reserved.

July 16, 2025

When dreams turn dark: Neuroscientists to study nightmares and mental health
Figure: MRI of an avocado. (A) Photograph of dissected fruit showing fleshy pericarp and stony seed. (B–F) Internal structure of the fruit as visualized by MRI; (B, E) distribution of water shown in longitudinal and cross-section; (C, F) distribution of lipid (given in color-code (C) or in gray scale (F)); (D) visualization of the vascular system in the seed and the fruit. Abbreviations: vse-vascular system of embryo (fragment), vsp-vascular system of pericarp (fragment), vssc-vascular system of seed coat.

July 16, 2025

MRI advancements herald new possibilities for plant imaging
Credit: Sharon Siegfried / Penn State. Creative Commons

July 15, 2025

Grant to help establish AI, health research lab at Harrisburg
Credit: Keith Hickey / Penn State. Creative Commons

July 15, 2025

Optical tweezers help elevate single-molecule research at Penn State
Apples

July 15, 2025

What if Pennsylvania apples disappeared?

July 14, 2025

Evening Pistachios Shift Gut Bacteria in People with Prediabetes
Graduate student Chad Smies and postdoctoral scholar Jiyeon “Joan” Baek manipulate a solution that will be used to visualize protein expression in the mouse brain. Credit: Michelle Bixby / Penn State. Creative Commons

July 14, 2025

The breadth of the brain

July 10, 2025

Penn State research shows potential damaging effects of some fungicides
Researchers reconstructed a high-resolution 3D image of a tick-borne Powassan virus. Credit: Courtesy of the Hafenstein lab at the University of Minnesota. All Rights Reserved.

July 09, 2025

Structure of tick-borne virus revealed at atomic resolution for the first time
A flexible, skin-like sensor can monitor movement and electrical signals inside the body, with the potential to aid healing and bladder control. Credit: Huanyu “Larry” Cheng and Jennifer M. McCann. All Rights Reserved.

July 09, 2025

Skin-like sensor monitors internal, external body movement, electrical signals

July 09, 2025

Penn State professors receive $2.9 million grant to research the effects of adolescent binge drinking
Postdoctoral fellow Laurel Seemiller studies the biology and long-term consequences of adolescent alcohol usage. Credit: Michelle Bixby / Penn State. Creative Commons

July 08, 2025

Q&A: Does adolescent alcohol use impact future risk of addiction?
Study first author Maureen Kahiu, who earned her master’s degree from Penn State with this research project, maneuvers a light box on a research fairway, used to take closeup photos of turfgrass damage resulting from fungicides that golf course managers use to suppress diseases such as dollar spot. Credit: Penn State. Creative Commons

July 08, 2025

Fungicides intended to suppress turfgrass diseases may damage fairways