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Pa.’s Largest Outdoor Agricultural Expo Returns with Ag Progress Days Set to Get Underway

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New at-home, saliva-based COVID test as effective as PCR in preliminary analysis

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New SciArt installation reflects on viruses in our everyday lives

Biden’s climate agenda faces yet another obstacle: Kyrsten Sinema

Hot and getting hotter – 5 essential reads on high temps and human bodies

Experts at odds over nuclear power's role in fighting climate change

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Close ties with industry fuel success for master of biotechnology degree program

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New options for health, environmental monitoring with water-resistant gas sensor

What is monkeypox and why is it spreading?

Why you need to worry about the ‘wet-bulb temperature’

Will Hot Drinks Keep You Cool on Hot Days?

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Undergrads to present research at public symposium on climate science, solutions

Pennsylvania’s new lawn-fertilizing rules, trees in heat, and bugs on the milkweeds: This Weekend in the Garden

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Researchers get $2M NSF grant to develop Africa water-food-energy network

Unprecedented Heat And Stressed Grids Make Dangerous Power Outages Increasingly Likely

How the omicron subvariant BA.5 became a master of disguise – and what it means for the current COVID-19 surge

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Interim associate vice president for research named

Using biomimetic proteins patterned on squid ring teeth, researchers have created composite layered 2D materials that are resistant to breaking and extremely stretchable. Credit: Burcu Dursun.

Nature-inspired protein creates stretchable, composite layered materials

People in the U.S. are suffering under intense heat warnings and heat advisories

Can An Avocado A Day Really Help You Lose Weight?

Global climate crisis hits home in the U.S. amid record heat and pervasive wildfires

Why Extreme Heat Is So Bad for the Human Body

Predictive Model Uses Gut Microbes to Forecast Human Diseases, Health Outcomes

I study coronavirus in a highly secured biosafety lab – here's why I feel safer here than in the world outside