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More young people, women taking an interest in Pennsylvania's agriculture

New research reveals that cardiovascular health measures worsen over the course of the week when sleep is restricted to five hours per night and attempting to catch up on sleep over the weekend is insufficient to return these measures to normal. Credit: Gregory Pappas, Unsplash. All Rights Reserved.

Playing catch-up on weekends may not improve cardiovascular cost of sleep loss

No, there isn’t a new disease called ‘Disease X’

What to know about beech leaf disease, the 'heartbreaking' threat to forests along the East Coast

New neurotechnology is blurring the lines around mental privacy – but are new human rights the answer?

Why do we always have room for dessert?

Forget the lantern fly. A mysterious new pest has scientists sounding the alarm.

Researchers found little evidence of a repeatable pattern of peak timing of influenza throughout Vietnam. Credit: AsiaVision. All Rights Reserved.

Influenza shows no seasonality in tropics, posing challenges for health care

A new method offers a simple, safe, and practical way to create cyclopropanes—a key feature that increases the potency of many drugs and drug-candidates—within molecules. Credit: National Cancer Institute/Unsplash. All Rights Reserved.

New, simple and accessible method creates potency-increasing structure in drugs

Graduate student Ryan Trexler collects cores of biocrust from the field before bringing them back to the lab to study. Credit: Penn State. Creative Commons

Microbe-stuffed soil crusts menaced by climate change

Your 101 Guide To Salmon: Health Benefits, Environmental Impact & Cooking Tips

GABA Receptors Unveiled as Potential Antidepressant Targets

How much good does recycling do these days?

Erica Smithwick: A practical, financially helpful way to fight climate change

Carolee Bull, top center, will serve on the presidential lineage of the American​ Phytopathological Society until 2027. Credit: Penn State. Creative Commons

Penn State faculty member elected to plant pathology society leadership

Evan Pugh University Professor of Anthropology Nina G. Jablonski has been named an Atherton Professor. The newly created professorship is reserved exclusively for retiring Evan Pugh professors in recognition of their exemplary research and creative accomplishments, teaching and learning, and service over the course of their careers, and allows for the continuation of these activities to the benefit of the University community. Credit: Heidi Lynne . All Rights Reserved.

Anthropology faculty member Nina Jablonski named Atherton Professor

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Penn State CTSI announces seven Bridges to Translation pilot funding recipients

Your body can build up tolerance to heat. Here’s how.

Spider bites sleeping man's throat: 'I woke up choking and couldn't breathe'

New study aims to help Pennsylvania dairy farmers develop 'climate smart' practices

A photo of (L-R) Jessica Walnut, Alenka Hafer (front), Troy Ott (rear), Corrine Smolen, and Avery Sicher

HGSAC looks to raise the bar with election of new co-chairs

Kate Anton instructs a participant during the recent honey bee instrumental insemination workshop at University Park. Anton is a research technologist in the Department of Entomology and Center for Pollinator Research in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences and Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences.  Credit: Robyn Underwood. All Rights Reserved.

Workshop empowers beekeepers to breed more resilient honey bees

Cassie Stark, who spearheaded the study as a master’s degree student, studied four populations each of Allium tricoccum and Allium burdickii in southwestern Pennsylvania, and compared and contrasted the habitats where they were found. She is shown in a population of Allium burdickii — commonly known as narrow-leaved wild leek Credit: Penn State. Creative Commons

Second species of ramp, or wild leek, documented in Pennsylvania

Climate change could wipe out more than 700 plant and lichen species