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HARRISBURG (TNS) — Wildlife habitat management ranks high among Pennsylvania supporters of controlled fires — also known as prescribed burns — accordi...

FORT WORTH, Texas — The never-ending quest to understand why some people are more easily able than others to achieve the American Dream has a new, int...

The COVID-19 pandemic isn’t over but it’s at the point that researchers can examine the effectiveness of responses around the world. As of Friday, acc...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — While nearly all outdoor recreation venues saw massive increases in users during the pandemic, a Penn State study found that more t...

COVID-19’s omicron variant is highly transmissible. It weakened vaccines’ defense against infection, though the shots still confer strong protection a...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — A decades-long trend of declining participation in hunting ended abruptly in 2020, when the sport saw a 25% increase fueled largely...

NEW YORK (TNS) — A new study has pinpointed when Vikings first traveled across the Atlantic to North America: 1021, or almost 500 years ahead of Chris...

A simple saliva test may be able to determine which children are at greater risk of developing severe COVID-19 symptoms, according to early research f...

New York state fisheries researchers identified lake trout fry in Lake Erie this past spring, a significant milestone in re-establishing wild stocks o...

UNIVERSITY PARK — Researchers in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences have developed a robotic mushroom picking and trimming mechanism and de...

Even if we never learn whether COVID-19 escaped from a lab or jumped to humans from animals, the public is entitled to a closer look at what’s going o...

Back in September, I wrote about how in the midst of the pandemic, there was a lot of good news that wasn’t getting much coverage. At the time, the po...

DOGS SNIFF OUT COVID-19: An article published in November 2020 on Nature.com shared that dog trainers are claiming dogs can detect the coronavirus wit...

UNIVERSITY PARK — A self-administered “scratch-and-sniff” test for COVID-19 may be around the corner, according to researchers at Penn State, the Univ...

Scientists and researchers the world over have harnessed the energy of their minds and hearts to craft a weapon against the persistent and deadly COVI...

UNIVERSITY PARK — A researcher in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences is part of a team of scientists working to develop a unique COVID-19 v...

MACHIAS, N.Y. — The Cattaraugus County Museum announced that, effective immediately, it has reopened to the public. In light of the current and ongoin...

UNIVERSITY PARK — By manipulating the expression of one gene, geneticists can induce a form of “stress memory” in plants that is inherited by some pro...

UNIVERSITY PARK — Some deer are more susceptible to chronic wasting disease that is spreading through herds of white-tailed deer across much of the Un...

Area residents have the opportunity to assist with a historic study that could change our understanding of healthcare. All of Us Pennsylvania research...