With a program that lets you explore your scientific interests, gain real-world experience, and make valuable connections with faculty experts, you’ll turn your passion for science into the start of a ...

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 ...

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 newly developed intranasal vaccine candidate helps to clear COVID-19 infections more quickly than controls in pre-clinical testing, according to a new study. The new vaccine platform relies on a ...

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.

Algebraic and Analytic Number Theory Algebraic and Arithmetic Geometry Algebraic Statistics Combinatorics Commutative Algebra Cryptography Group Theory Finite Field Theory (incl. Coding Theory) ...

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, ...

Anna Mazzucato, Distinguished Senior Scholar and professor of mathematics at Penn State, has been named a Martarano Leadership Fellow. The Martarano Leadership Fellows Program (formerly known as the ...

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 ...

Knowing how many people are vaccinated against an existing or re-emerging threat is a key factor guiding public health decisions, but such information is often sparse or non-existent in many regions, ...

Thomas Building is home to the Eberly College of Science Dean's Office and Department of Statistics. It also houses members of the Forensic Science program, as well as general purpose classrooms and ...

For information about internships, check out the Office of Science Engagement’s webpage https://science.psu.edu/science-engagement about the science internship ...