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Gardening Goes Native
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Tough Potatoes
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Hormone Myths
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On the Levee
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City Lights
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Ocean Extinction
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The Meaning of a Bike
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Bubble Trouble
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Zooming Out
ARTICLES
Catching Fire
Started in a storage shed in 1972, Penn State's High-Pressure Combustion
Lab is now the cornerstone of a NASA Center of Excellence. Adapting to changing times, the lab
Kenneth Kuo built is not just for rocket boosters anymore. Lately, Kuo and his graduate students
have been looking into air separators and automobile airbags.
Within Grasp
Grasping — the ability to take and hold objects in our hands — is something we
humans do better than any other creature. Even though we tend not to thing about it, our
brains and our hands are constantly in touch. But does the left hand know what the right is doing?
Graduate students in kinesiology are trying to find out.
Worried Sick
Stressed-out is part of our national lexicon, but the link between stress and illness is a relatively
recent discovery. A team of psychologists led by Karen Quigley asks, What's the effect of anxiety on
your body's basic functions? And what can you do about it?
