Research

Stephen Hambric, an Acoustics faculty member, was among the engineers stationed on the field at Beaver Stadium to measure crowd noise at Saturday night's Iowa-Penn State football game.

Credit: Curtis Chan September 26, 2009

The honeybee's alarm signal may not only bring help, but also attract this small hive beetle pest according to research conducted by James H. Tumlinson, the Ralph O. Mumma Professor of Entomology and director of the Penn State Center for Chemical Ecology.

Credit: Penn State University May 16, 2007

Hidden Fault May Contribute to Bay Area Earthquake Risk Map of Faults in the San Francisco Area

Credit: Kevin Furlong December 9, 2004

Amaya Garcia, a member of the team that discovered the new bacterium, stands next to the colorful microbial mats in Octopus Spring in Yellowstone National Park. he discovery of the chlorophyll-producing bacterium, Candidatus Chloracidobacterium (Cab.) thermophilum, will be described in the July 27 issue of the journal Science in a paper led by Don Bryant, Ernest C. Pollard professor of biotechnology in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Penn State, and David M. Ward, professor of microbial studies in the Thermal Biology Institute and Department of Land Resources and Environmental Sciences at Montana State University, and colleagues.

Credit: David Strong August 4, 2006

Terry Engelder shows the natural hydrolic fractures that occured in this shale sample.

Credit: Greg Grieco January 4, 2008

The skeletal remains found in a cave on the island of Flores, Indonesia, do not represent a new species, according to an international scientific team, lead by Dr. Robert B. Eckhardt, professor of developmental genetics and evolutionary morphology, Department of Kinesiology at Penn State. LB1 in three different views to illustrate facial asymmetry. A is the actual specimen, B is the Right side doubled at the midline and mirrored, and C is the left side doubled and mirrored. Differences in left and right side facial architectures are apparent, and illustrate growth abnormalities of LB1.

Credit: Penn State Department of Public Information August 16, 2006

A blast of the brightest X-rays ever detected from beyond our Milky Way galaxy's neighborhood temporarily blinded the X-ray eye on NASA's Swift space observatory earlier this summer, astronomers now report. The burst, named GRB 100621A, is the brightest X-ray source that Swift has detected since the observatory began X-ray observation in early 2005.

Credit: NASA/Swift/Stefan Immler September 2, 2010

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Tracy Langkilde captures a fence lizard using a little noose tied to the end of a pole. Penn State Assistant Professor of Biology Tracy Langkilde has shown that native fence lizards in the southeastern United States are adapting to potentially fatal invasive fire-ant attacks by developing behaviors that enable them to escape from the ants, as well as by developing longer hind legs, which can increase the effectiveness of this behavior. Additional information is available at live.psu.edu/story/37379

Credit: Penn State Department of Public Information May 21, 2007

Penn State University genomicists Webb Miller and Stephan C. Schuster, in front of the Roche / 454 Life Sciences' Genome Sequencer 20 System that was used to sequence mammoth mitochondrial DNA from the hair of 10 woolly mammoths.

Credit: Lynn Tomsho December 19, 2005

Swift Satellite launch

Credit: Penn State Department of Public Information January 5, 2003

Pollution from a common herbicide might be causing die-offs in stream salamanders, according to Jason R. Rohr, research associate at the Penn State Institutes of Energy and the Environment. adult streamside salamanders (Ambystoma barbouri)

Credit: Karen Warkentin March 21, 2007

Scanning Electron Microscopy image of carbon dioxide sequestered in treated serpentine minerals. Crystals shown here are primarily nesquehonite.

Credit: M. Mercedes Maroto-Valer September 2, 2010

Total research expenditures for 2000-2010

Credit: Penn State Department of Public Information October 7, 2010

Paul Helton, one of the study participants, examines whole-grain foods and the refined foods used in the research. The study found that diets with high amounts of whole grains may help achieve significant weight loss, and also reduce the risk of chronic diseases such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

Credit: Heather Katcher September 12, 2006