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According to new research, the enzyme tokK, illustrated here, helps synthesize a chain of methyl groups that allows antibiotics called carbapenems to circumvent antibiotic resistance. Credit: Knox et al., 2022. All Rights Reserved.

February 02, 2022

The key to a powerful antibiotic’s formation now clear

February 01, 2022

Questions Remain After Highway Crash Involving Monkeys
A dysfunctional safety lamp in Centralia, Pennsylvania, which was the site of a Buck Mountain anthracite vein fire in 1962 that continues to burn to this day.

January 31, 2022

New exhibition to examine the impact of extraction economies on climate change

January 28, 2022

Take Note: Infectious disease expert Andrew Read on why omicron doesn't mean COVID-19 is evolving to be less severe
Nita Bharti, Penn State assistant professor of biology, will deliver the 2022 Darwin Day Lecture on Feb. 10. Credit: Photo Provided / Penn State. Creative Commons

January 27, 2022

Nita Bharti to deliver 2022 Darwin Day Lecture
Jennifer Wagner, Penn State assistant professor of law, policy and engineering in the School of Engineering Design, Technology, and Professional Programs. CREDIT: KELBY HOCHREITHER/PENN STATE COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

January 27, 2022

Faculty member appointed to AAAS Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility
Credit: Brennan Dincher / Penn State. Creative Commons

January 26, 2022

The Symbiotic Podcast returns live with 'game-changer' David Hughes

January 26, 2022

As Omicron Variant Slows, Health Officials Offer Hope
The Omicron variant was first detected in Botswana in October 2021 and has quickly spread throughout the world. A large international team of researchers, including Maciej Boni, associate professor of biology, Penn State, was the first to describe the genomic profile of Omicron and explore the origins of the variant. Credit: Justice Hubane, Unsplash. All Rights Reserved.

January 25, 2022

Omicron genetics and early transmission patterns are characterized in new study

January 24, 2022

Model: twentyfold drop in Mass. COVID-19 hospitalizations by spring

January 24, 2022

Hope seen once the omicron wave increases global immunity
David Toews, assistant professor of biology, holding a warbler. Credit: Nate Follmer, Penn State / Penn State. Creative Commons

January 24, 2022

Penn State biologists explore the secrets of the warbler genome

January 24, 2022

How Centre County school districts are adapting as omicron challenges in-person learning

January 22, 2022

‘An optimistic trend’: Covid cases are falling, but U.S. isn’t out of the woods yet

January 21, 2022

Two years since Covid was first confirmed in U.S., the pandemic is worse than anyone imagined
A study led by entomologists in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences found that the andrenid bee is the most important pollinator of black cherry. Credit: Rachel McLaughlin / Penn State. Creative Commons

January 21, 2022

Mining for knowledge: Scientists identify bee that can aid black cherry recovery
Amira Maddeb, associate professor of materials science and engineering, studies liquid droplets dispersed in a soft matrix. Maddeb's research is helping to develop better range of motion for robotics used in medical applications. Credit: Patrick Mansell. All Rights Reserved.

January 19, 2022

Latest NSF rankings show breadth and depth of Penn State research
A squash bee gathers pollen in a pumpkin flower. With support from a USDA grant, a team of researchers will study how climate change interacts with stressors such as pesticides and diseases to influence the health of pollinators important for crop pollination. Credit: Tom Andres. All Rights Reserved.

January 17, 2022

Entomologists to study how climate change may influence pollinator stressors
A selfie taken by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover on Sol 2291 at the "Rock Hall" drill site, located on Vera Rubin Ridge. Reduced carbon released from powder from this drill hole was strongly depleted in carbon 13, the surprising carbon isotopic signature reported by the team. The selfie is composed of 57 individual images taken by the rover's Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI), a camera on the end of the rover's robotic arm. Credit: NASA/Caltech-JPL/MSSS. All Rights Reserved.

January 17, 2022

Newly discovered carbon may yield clues to ancient Mars

January 16, 2022

Skin colour as a weapon of mass destruction
Neela Yennawar, director of the X-Ray Crystallography and the Automated Biological Calorimetry, Penn State Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences. Credit: Penn State. Creative Commons

January 13, 2022

Core facilities director brings more than technical advice to research

January 11, 2022

Covid may become stealthier like HIV in 'silent' infection phase, experts warn
Grey-headed flying fox at the Tolga Bat Hospital Credit: Nita Bharti. All Rights Reserved.

January 11, 2022

Researchers use satellites to monitor bat habitat and study virus spillover
Penn State researchers have developed risk scores that distill genetic information—collected, for example, using a cheek swab like the one pictured here—into an easy-to-interpret metric that could help clinicians identify young children most at risk of developing obesity. Credit: Penn State Center for Medical Genomics / Penn State. All Rights Reserved.

January 10, 2022

New approach can help identify young children most at risk for obesity