Certain DNA sequences can form structures other than the canonical double helix. These alternative DNA conformations — referred to as non-B DNA — have been implicated as regulators of cellular ...

Three graduate students in the Penn State Eberly College of Science have been selected by the J. Jeffery and Ann Marie Fox Graduate School to receive awards for their research and excellence. Ish ...

Public health strategies, from vaccination to improving sanitary conditions, may have different impacts depending on whether a disease is endemic — persisting in a particular location for an extended ...

Bin Yan, associate vice president for research and director of the Penn State Office of Technology Transfer, presents the Beecher Loftus Technology Transfer Catalyst Award to Matt Rhodes, managing ...

Kerry Abello may just be the definition of “goals” when it comes to being a student-athlete. Penn State sports fans will be most familiar with Abello’s success as a forward, midfielder, and defender ...

Three Eberly College of Science graduate students, Kristen Aviles, Pranav Diwakar, and Edward Hilvano have been awarded the Harold F. Martin Graduate Assistant Outstanding Teaching Award. This award ...

A new comparison and analysis of the genomes of species in the genus Malus, which includes the domesticated apple and its wild relatives, revealed the evolutionary relationships among the species and ...

What began with a focus on weather forecasting has evolved toward addressing errors in scientific modeling. In the collaborative environment of the Penn State Institute for Computational and Data ...

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 ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — By combining forefront X-ray observations with state-of-the-art supercomputer simulations of the buildup of galaxies over cosmic history, researchers have provided the best ...

A new technique allows astronomers to home in on planets beyond our solar system that are in line with each other and with Earth to search for radio signals similar, for example, to ones used to ...

When stars collapse, they can leave behind incredibly dense but relatively small and cold remnants called neutron stars. If two stars collapse in close proximity, the leftover binary neutron stars ...