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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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

The Eberly College of Science is committed to supporting our researchers in translating their research for society. Translation is an early part of technology transfer where scientific discoveries are ...

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 ...

Before the evolution of legs from fins, the axial skeleton — including the bones of the head, neck, back and ribs — was already going through changes that would eventually help our ancestors support ...

The collision and merger of two neutron stars — the incredibly dense remnants of collapsed stars — are some of the most energetic events in the universe, producing a variety of signals that can be ...

Amie Boal, professor of chemistry and of biochemistry and molecular biology, has been named the Nicholas and Gelsa Pelick Family Chair in Science. The purpose of the endowed faculty chair is to ...

A new approach to gene editing using the CRISPR/Cas9 system bypasses disease-causing mutations in a gene, enabling treatment of genetic diseases linked to a single gene, such as cystic fibrosis, ...

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.