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Eberly researchers form interdisciplinary connections to address big questions in quantum science, neuroscience, and more.
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 ...
Have you ever had that sinking feeling that you might have forgotten to turn off the stove? Or felt anxious about an upcoming event, or had bad dreams after a particularly stressful day? You aren’t ...
Liu earned her doctoral degree in chemistry from McGill University, her master's degree from Memorial University of Newfoundland, and her bachelor’s degree from Xiangtan University. She conducted ...
Just like ChatGPT and other generative language models train on human texts to create grammatically correct sentences, a new modeling method by researchers at Penn State trains on recordings of birds ...
Many materials store information about what has happened to them in a sort of material memory, like wrinkles on a once crumpled piece of paper. Now, a team led by Penn State physicists has uncovered ...
An unusual planetary system with three known ultra-low density “super-puff” planets has at least one more planet, according to new research led by researchers from Penn State and Osaka University. The ...
Lifestyle can shape the composition of beneficial bacteria and other microorganisms within the mouth, according to a new study led by Penn State biologists. The international team revealed how the ...
The “RNA world” hypothesis proposes that the earliest life on Earth may have been based on RNA — a single-stranded molecule similar in many ways to DNA — like some modern viruses. This is because, ...
A team led by Sarah Pfaff, postdoctoral scholar in biology, developed a method to isolate plant cells and reprogram them into other cell types, similar to the way stem cells differentiate into ...
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 ...
Ray Schaak (middle) accepting an award at the American Chemical Society meeting Ray Schaak, DuPont Professor of Materials Chemistry in the Penn State Eberly College of Science and professor of ...