This year, the world is marking the 100th anniversary of quantum mechanics, the beginning of a scientific revolution so important that it prompted the United Nations to declare 2025 as the ...

When on-campus labs were effectively shuttered in early 2020, scientists scrambled to find ways to continue their work. Biochemists and molecular biologists, in particular, struggled without the use ...

The BMMB Climate and Diversity Committee strives to foster an inclusive community within the department, where everyone is given respect. We acknowledge the adversities faced disproportionately by ...

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Thanks to a partnership with the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), Science-U is fostering a new generation of environmentalists, allowing K–12 students to ask questions and ...

One of the many ways that research can make an impact on everyday life or address societal challenges is through a process called translation, an early part of technology transfer, where novel ideas ...

Sharing disappointing results with a world of researchers working to find what they hope with be the “discovery of the century” isn’t an easy task, but that is what Penn State theoretical physicist ...

NIkki Crowley, director of the Penn State Neuroscience Institute at University Park. “Neuroscience as we know it is a baby science; it’s quite new,” said Nikki Crowley, Huck Early Career Chair in ...

The research of my group at Penn State, as well as in several other collaborations with colleagues elsewhere, circles around different aspects whose common theme is their relevance for formulations of ...

Eberly researchers form interdisciplinary connections to address big questions in quantum science, neuroscience, and more. As we pursue the college's core missions, it is important to pause—especially ...

The Penn State Pulsar Search Collaboratory visits the Green Bank Observatory in West Virginia. Members of the student organization obtain research credit by searching for signs of pulsars in the data ...

Even if we can’t see them, microorganisms are everywhere, inextricably linked to life on Earth at every level. They range from pathogenic bacteria and viruses that can make us sick to the microbes ...