This is a backyard view of the sky surrounding the ancient star, cataloged as HD 140283. Star could be as old as 14.5 billion years A team of astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has taken an important step closer…

Although pacemakers, pumps and defibrillators arent exactly new to the heart health scene, todays devices for supporting a strong ticker are smaller, smarter and more widespread than you might think. For instance, a full two-thirds of patients who receive defibrillators…

By Anne Danahy UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Condensation trails that airplanes produce mean not only a white-streaked sky on some days, but an increase in the amount of high-level clouds and, by extension, warming temperatures, according to a Penn State…

In the Red Cell Lab, students battle biases to improve intelligence. By Matthew Swayne UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Whether intelligence analysts are trying to predict the next moves of an insurgent group or determining how to best deliver aid after…

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Just as ice sheets slide slowly and steadily into the ocean, researchers are returning from each trip to the Arctic and Antarctic with more data about climate change, including information that will help improve current models…

By James W. Campbell Engineer and Support Center, Huntsville This aerial view of the solar photovoltaic array at White Sands Missile Range, N.M., was taken, Jan. 8, 2013. The panels cover 42 acres and provide more than four megawatts of…

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Mussels can be a mouthwatering meal, but the chemistry that lets mussels stick to underwater surfaces may also provide a highly adhesive wound closure and more effective healing from surgery. In recent decades bio-adhesives, tissue sealants…

Tucson. Earth fissures continue to be a growing problem in Cochise County as new fissure areas have been identified in the past two years. Earth fissure maps for two such areas, Croton Springs, Willcox Basin, and Elfrida, Douglas Basin, are…

There are more microbes in a bucket of seawater than there are people on Earth. Despite their abundance, humans are only just beginning to fathom the complex role marine microbes play in the ocean ecosystem. These tiny creatures are responsible…

by Patty Welsh 66th Air Base Wing Public Affairs HANSCOM AIR FORCE BASE, Mass. (AFNS) -- The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center here recently put out a request for proposal to move the Space Fence program forward. Space Fence…

HERSHEY, Pa.--The spread of cancer cells may be slowed by targeting the protein km23-1, according to researchers at Penn State College of Medicine. A motor protein that transports cargo within the cell, km23-1 is also involved in the movement or…

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Building a tunnel made up of both hard and soft materials to guide the reconnection of severed nerve endings may be the first step toward helping patients who have suffered extensive nerve trauma regain feeling and…