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Jul 07, 2014
Expectant moms turn to 'Dr. Google' for pregnancy advice
Pregnant women are using the Internet to seek answers to their medical questions more often than they would like, say Penn State researchers including Jennifer Kraschnewski.
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Jul 01, 2014
Fine-scale climate model projections predict malaria at local levels
Fine-scale climate model projections suggest the possibility that population centers in cool, highland regions of East Africa could be more vulnerable to malaria than previously thought, while population centers in hot, lowland areas could be less vulnerable, according to a team of researchers that includes Huck Institutes faculty researcher Matthew Thomas.
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Jul 01, 2014
NSF grant will help create beneficial biofilms on water purification membranes
A team of chemical engineers at Penn State that includes Huck Institutes faculty researcher Thomas Wood has received a three-year, $400,000 National Science Foundation grant to help prevent biofouling of reverse osmosis (RO) membranes.
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Jun 30, 2014
Malaria parasite manipulates host's scent
Malaria parasites alter the chemical odor signal of their hosts to attract mosquitos and better spread their offspring, according to researchers including Mark Mescher, Consuelo De Moraes, and Andrew Read, who believe this scent change could be used as a diagnostic tool.
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Jun 25, 2014
Live webcams: scientists studying corals damaged by oil in the Gulf of Mexico
How are the corals doing now, four years after they were damaged by the Deep Water Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico? You can find out by watching live webcams and by sending messages to the scientists on a research ship that will be in the Gulf until July 4. The research expedition is led by Chief Scientist Chuck Fisher, a Penn State University professor of biology.
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Jun 25, 2014
Habitat loss, not poison, better explains grassland bird decline
Contrary to recent well-publicized research, habitat loss, not insecticide use, continues to be the best explanation for the declines in grassland bird populations in the U.S. since the 1980s, according to a new study by ecologists including Huck Institutes faculty affiliate Duane Diefenbach.
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Jun 17, 2014
World's cocoa crop could get a big boost from a simple, non-toxic spray
Huck scientists find Theobroma cacao trees' natural disease defense is bolstered by glycerol foliar treatment
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Jun 16, 2014
Announcing Huck Dissertation Research Award 2014 winners
Graduate student awardees selected
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Jun 12, 2014
Announcing MCIBS a new life sciences graduate program
The new Molecular, Cellular and Integrative Biosciences (MCIBS) graduate program merger aims to increase integration and flexibility for life sciences students.
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Jun 12, 2014
Can fish feel pain?
On BBC's Newsnight, Victoria Braithwaite discusses science, business, and ethics in commercial fish harvesting.
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