Disney's Moana depicts wayfinding — the process of orienting and traveling from place to place — as a main plot point in helping the Polynesian voyagers navigate across the ocean. These explorers ...

The Dr. Jack and Pauline Dickstein Collaborative Learning Center is available for students, faculty, and staff in the Eberly College of Science to use for individual studying or collaborating in ...

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Essentially all cells in an organism’s body have the same genetic blueprint, or genome, but the set of genes that are actively expressed at any given time in a cell determines what type of cell it ...

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 ...

The Penn State Eberly College of Science is introducing a new series of outreach events — Science Matters: Spotlight Sessions — to provide a unique opportunity for the community to engage directly ...

Related article at The Conversation. On September 14, 2015, a signal arrived on Earth, carrying information about a pair of remote black holes that had spiraled together and merged. The signal had ...

The efficiency of quantum computers, sensors and other applications often relies on the properties of electrons, including how they are spinning. One of the most accurate systems for high performance ...

Biotechnology Mini Summer School is an opportunity for high school students who are fascinated by DNA and biotechnology and are interested in learning more about cutting-edge research in ...

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A new method improves the extraction and separation of rare earth elements—a group of 17 elements critical for technologies such as smart phones and electric car batteries—from unconventional sources.

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