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Research
The muon’s magnetic moment fits just fine
Artist’s conception of the mystery of the magnetic moment of the muon
Research, Science Journal, Winter 2021
Beyond the Limits of Observation
This full-sky image of the temperature fluctuations (shown as color differences) in the cosmic microwave background was made from nine years of observations by NASA’s Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) satellite. These temperature fluctuations are the seeds of galaxies, from a time when the universe was less than 400,000 years old. Credit: NASA
Awards and Honors, Science Journal, Winter 2021
New Faculty - Winter 2021
Lion Shrine
Science Journal, Winter 2021
Eberly Impact: The Hobby-Eberly Telescope
Eberly 30th anniversary stamp
Awards and Honors
Three from Eberly College of Science awarded 2021 Sloan Research Fellowships
Sloan Fellows: Carmona, Cotruvo and Elacqua
Awards and Honors
Balloon mission chosen for NASA Pioneers program
Stephanie Wissel
Awards and Honors
IceCube Collaboration awarded 2021 Rossi Prize by American Astronomical Society
Rossi Prize graphic
Awards and Honors
Three Penn State researchers awarded New Initiative grants from Kaufman Foundation
Mikael Rechtsman, Randall McEntaffer, Lauren Zarzar
Research
Quantum insulators create multilane highways for electrons
QAH insulators as legos
Research
2D-materials center ready to move to new phase, add industry partners
Illustrated vision for the center
In Focus
Are We Alone in the Universe?
The tip of the wing of the Small Magellanic Cloud galaxy is dazzling in this new view from NASA Great Observatories. The SMC, is a small galaxy about 200,000 light-years way that orbits our own Milky Way spiral galaxy. Credit: NASA/CXC/JPL-Caltech/STScI
Research
Q&A with the Penn State LIGO group
Artist impression of gravitational waves generated by binary neutron stars. Credit: R. Hurt, Caltech/JPL