Different cover crops may affect how plants can defend themselves against pests — including attracting more insects that eat harmful caterpillars, according to a new study led by researchers at Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences.

Forests support much of the world's biodiversity and play a vital role in regulating Earth's climate, but they are increasingly exposed to drought.

When Drew Bouchie (CAS’24) and his classmates enrolled in “Marine Physiology and Climate Change,” as part of the Boston University Marine Program (BUMP) “Marine Semester” in November 2023, they had no idea it would lead to a published study.

An El Niño of historic proportion is taking shape in the tropical Pacific. 

Study identified diagnoses not typically considered heat-related, like traffic accidents, multiple sclerosis.

They live in some of the most inaccessible waters on Earth, where ocean temperatures hover around freezing. 

Unlike conventional glaciers, rock glaciers appear as piles of rock that obscure large masses of unaccounted-for ice.

Microplastics are turning up almost everywhere – from oceans and rivers to soils and sediments – yet far less is known about what happens when they enter freshwater wetlands.

NASA’s Starling mission has marked another milestone in spacecraft autonomy by using a new system that determines a satellite’s position in orbit by referencing other objects in space, instead of relying on a navigational network.  

Light-activated nanoparticles could help surgeons see glioblastoma more clearly and destroy cancer cells left behind after surgery.