Printable hydrogel enables wearable health sensors that multitask
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A team of researchers led by Penn State developed an ultrasoft, adhesive and printable hydrogel — a soft, water-rich material that mimics the flexibility of living tissue — designed to conform to dry, wet, moving and hairy skin.
Cell ‘invisibility cloaks’ could offer side-effect-free diabetes treatment
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Outfitting cells in “invisibility cloaks” may offer an easier, less-damaging treatment pathway for people with diabetes undergoing cell therapy, according to researchers at Penn State. The team manufactured these cloaks out of a jelly-like material known as hydrogel, which the team called biomimetic zona pellucida.
Farmer-inspired cover crop research yields more than a decade of insights
| sciencesocieties.org
Long-term experiment not only provides key data for understanding interactions, but also a platform for training next generation of scientists
Wildfire-damaged historic buildings may not be as ruined as they appear, but saving them means acting fast
| theconversation.com
The damage is sometimes only centimeters deep. Three engineers explain the colors of burned masonry and other signs preservationists look for amid another destructive fire year.
Newly formed Keystone AgTech Alliance to accelerate innovation
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Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences has joined the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development, Team Pennsylvania, and Innovation Works/The Robotics Factory to launch the Keystone AgTech Alliance, a statewide partnership designed to accelerate agricultural innovation and position the commonwealth as a national leader in agricultural technology deployment.
Variations between labs can misinform scientific AI models, team reports
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Scientists at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, alongside two researchers from Penn State, have demonstrated the importance of generating highly reproducible experimental data when building artificial intelligence models for catalyst investigations, a framework that can help guide the reactions that do things like turn carbon dioxide into valuable fuel.
NSF CAREER Award: Understanding how the brain learns complex skills
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Tarkeshwar Singh, associate professor of kinesiology in the Penn State College of Health and Human Development, has been awarded a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award from the U.S. National Science Foundation. The five-year, $775,450 award will support Singh’s research on the interaction between cognition, decision-making and motor control to plan and coordinate complex movement sequences and skills.
Energy Department plans investment in Penn State mining program
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Penn State’s highly ranked mining engineering program is slated to be among the recipients of a proposed $100 million investment from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Critical Minerals and Energy Innovation.
Power hungry: AI data centers’ appetites for electricity are reshaping energy landscapes
| thegazette.com
Artificial intelligence and its machines need electricity—a lot of electricity.
Floods can leave communities facing higher overdose deaths for years
| grist.org
Disrupted treatment, unstable housing, and ongoing trauma help explain a troubling pattern of overdoses now emerging after Hurricane Helene.
Armen Kemanian named Director of Penn State TALiS
| pennsylvaniaagconnection.com
Armen R. Kemanian has been named director of Penn State's TALiS initiative to advance agricultural technologies that boost productivity, sustainability, and economic growth.
PennTAP advances statewide decarbonization and manufacturing competitiveness
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$3.5 million in grant funding for small manufacturing facilities will support projects that help cut energy costs and reduce air pollution across Pennsylvania, collectively saving more than $470,000 and eliminating 2,500 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalents in the first year.