Can Machines Discover?
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Wearable health monitors are designed to move with the body. But…

Image of Old Main on the University Park campus at Penn State

Joan Redwing, distinguished professor of materials…

Image of the Nittany Lion Shrine at the University Park Campus, Penn State

University also partnering on first Phase II award…

Sensor on a hand with a painted alligator over the sensor shaped tale

By Ty Tkacik

Engineers at Penn State are blending art and…

Hands with lab gloves on handling a device into equipment

By Ty Tkacik

By combining approaches from two rapidly…

Photo of researcher, Jyotirmay Dwivedi, calibrating equipment for an experiment in the lab

Discovering the physical principles of…

MD Mashfiqur Rahman, doctoral candidate in engineering science and mechanics, preparing artificial permafrost in a lab in the Millennium Science Complex

By Jamie Oberdick

In a Penn State lab, a small cylinder of…