Every Tuesday or Thursday, Eric Simring goes to prison. He drives to Quehanna Boot Camp in Karthaus, PA, or Benner Correctional Facility in Bellefonte, PA, to teach mathematics to inmates. “But these ...

Researchers at the Penn State Extraterrestrial Intelligence (PSETI) Center have been awarded a three-year, $480,000 grant under the NASA Exoplanets Research Program to search for radio and laser ...

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The Penn State Eberly College of Science community is mourning the loss of Don Bryant, an Academy Professor, Ernest C. Pollard Professor Emeritus of Biotechnology, and professor emeritus of ...

Combining stem cells and silicon nanowires in lab-grown tissue has shown promise as a step toward a new treatment for heart disease, the leading cause of death worldwide, according to a ...

Janine Kwapis, Paul Berg Early Career Professor in the Biological Sciences and assistant professor of biology at Penn State, has been awarded the 2024 McKnight Brain Research Foundation Innovator ...

The Penn State Center for Socially Responsible Artificial Intelligence (CSRAI) has announced the results of its most recent seed-funding competition. The center awarded more than $159,000 to seven ...

Penn State student Nate Carey has earned a 2025 Marshall Scholarship, which is among the most competitive U.K. scholarships for U.S. students and recognizes academic excellence and leadership and ...

The motion of particles in a classical gas is famously chaotic. A simple and common consequence of this chaos is that an enclosed gas equilibrates to a single temperature, which is why letting cold ...

Subtle activation of a small subset of neurons in one region of the brain can make male mice resilient to, and even reverse, the detrimental effects of chronic stress. The same is true for female mice ...

In the latest episode of Invent Penn State’s "Dare to Disrupt" podcast, host Ryan Newman interviews Mario Ciabarra, the chief executive officer and founder of Quantum Metric, a customer-centered ...

Microrobots are engineered entities that contain very simple electronic circuits and propulsion machinery that allows them to push or drive forward. Individually, these robots can execute simple ...