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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

January 10, 2022

‘Flurona’ is real, but don’t panic — it’s common to get two viruses at once
A study conducted by Penn State College of Medicine researchers showed that surveying communities about public health compliance may be a useful tool for predicting COVID-19 case trends. Credit: Getty Images | martin-dm. All Rights Reserved.

January 10, 2022

COVID-19 case trajectories may be predicted by surveying communities

January 05, 2022

When will Omicron peak? A Penn State professor shares national COVID-19 modeling team's projections

January 05, 2022

WTAJ News at 6
C. Denise Okafor, assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at Penn State. Credit: Penn State. All Rights Reserved.

January 03, 2022

Okafor receives 2021 National Science Foundation CAREER Award

January 02, 2022

Covid is rampant among deer, research shows

December 29, 2021

Deer populations may 'host' coronavirus

December 20, 2021

Sports Leagues Are Showing Us Just How Bad Omicron Could Get

December 19, 2021

Europe gives US gloomy portrait of what's to come with omicron

December 17, 2021

Omicron may be less severe in South Africa. That may not be the case for the U.S.
David Hughes, Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Chair in Global Food Security and professor of entomology and biology in the College of Agricultural Sciences and Eberly College of Science Credit: Dan Lesher / Penn State. Creative Commons

December 16, 2021

David Hughes makes Newsweek’s inaugural list of 'America’s Greatest Disruptors'

December 15, 2021

America's Greatest Disruptors: Planet Protectors

December 14, 2021

Is Omicron as infectious as it gets? Scientists lay out their best and worst scenarios for the virus' future.