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Barkley and Congdon share two children

VOTING in a swing state like Pennsylvania feels like an even bigger responsibility, according to students at Penn State University. As a result,…

An interview with "After the Flying Saucers Came" author and Penn State history professor Greg Eghigian about the history of the UFO phenomenon and those who study it.

Other lives: World authority on Actinobacteria, an important group of microbes

Scientist wins award against conservative writers who said his work was ‘fraudulent’ and that he ‘molested and tortured’ data

It goes against what current theories would predict for planet formation around small stars. 

Fact that planet 13 times bigger than Earth is orbiting star nine times smaller than sun shows ‘how little we know about the universe’

Because of climate change, summers are getting hotter and more humid – much more humid. SciLine interviewed Dr. W. Larry Kenney, professor of physiology and kinesiology at Penn State University, who discussed why humid heat can be dangerous to human health and, in some cases, life-threatening; how heat stresses the…

They also believe having curly hair may have also helped the early humans’ brains to grow