Widely accepted myths that urbanization negatively impacts food and land use biodiversity are incorrect, according to a team of researchers who developed a framework for evaluating this intersection. Their results could also affect nutrition and food insecurity in urban areas.
Demonstrating that a material thought to be always chemically inert, hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), can be turned chemically active holds potential for a new class of catalysts with a wide range of applications, according to an international team of researchers.
Understanding how climate change will affect the flooding of rivers may become easier with a new framework for assessing flood risk that's been developed by an interdisciplinary team from Penn State.
Penn State's Radiation Science & Engineering Center and the Ken and Mary Alice Lindquist Department of Nuclear Engineering broke ground on a 10,000-square-foot, $9.5 million expansion of the Breazeale Reactor on Oct. 21.
A panel of energy experts from Penn State and industry will discuss the reasons behind rising oil and gas prices; what it means for heating bills this winter; potential policy responses to keep energy prices in check; and how rising prices might encourage or thwart a transition to alternative sources of energy.
For years, researchers believed that the smaller the domain size in a ferroelectric crystal, the greater the piezoelectric properties of the material. However, recent findings by Penn State researchers have raised questions about this standard rule.
A recently dedicated lab at Penn State bears the name of a longtime geosciences faculty member who used isotope geochemistry to better understand processes deep within the Earth.
The Celebrating Women in Energy and Water Research lecture series will host two talks by Jennifer Dunn, associate professor of chemical and biological engineering at Northwestern University, on Thursday, Nov. 18.
Park Williams, associate professor of geography at the University of California, Los Angeles, will discuss the drivers of the increased fire activity during a talk titled "Understanding the rapid recent increase in western U.S. wildfire activity." The talk, which is free and open to the public, takes place at 4 p.m. Monday, Nov. 29, via Zoom.
The College of Earth and Mineral Sciences is hosting an online 50/50 raffle to benefit the Centre County United Way as part of the 2020-21 Penn State United Way campaign.