Professors publish paper on gender and racial bias in physics textbooks

Penn State Brandywine faculty members Timothy Lawlor, associate professor of physics and astrophysics, and Timothy Niiler,…

Evolution in real-time: How bacteria adapt to their hosts

Bacteria that invade animal cells in order to multiply are widespread in nature. Some of these…

Mauritius oil spill: Potential government failures should be investigated, says expert

The stranding of the MV Wakashio is one of the biggest environmental disasters in the history…

Five ways coronavirus is deepening global inequality

Before coronavirus, inequality was already increasing in many parts of the developing world. But the pandemic…

Promising strategies to enhance separation selectivity of nanofiltration

Researchers from the Institute of Process Engineering (IPE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Argonne National…

Scientists identify modulator of plant architecture in Setaria italica

The leaf is the primary organ for light capture and organic compound synthesis in plants. For…

In a land of ancient giants, these small oddball seals once called Australia home

When most of us think of the prehistoric past, we envision a world of bizarre, often…

Study uncovers mechanisms underlying biosynthesis and accumulation of Paris saponins in P. polyphyllavar yunnanensis

Paris polyphylla var. yunnanensis can synthesize Paris saponins with multiple effective therapies, and its rhizome has become an indispensable…

Unearthing evidence for the origins of plate tectonics

Minerals trapped inside tiny crystals that have survived the grinding of the continents over billions of…

Mathematicians unravel a thread of string theory

Simply put, string theory is a proposed method of explaining everything. Actually, there’s nothing simple about…