Penn State-IBM partnership accelerates search for elusive neutrinos
A flaring supermassive black hole 3.7 billion light-years from Earth in the constellation Orion is the suspected source of a super-high-energy subatomic particle -- a neutrino -- that has launched a new era of space research. Credit: Nate Follmer, Penn State

A partnership with technology leader IBM allows the Cowen group to scale up their research to detect more neutrinos.

Black hole or neutron star?
Artist's impression of mysterious astonomical object detected by LIGO
Online science outreach helps fill a void during COVID-19 quarantine
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Penn State’s Center for Nanoscale Science releases a new website full of family-friendly, at-home science experiments

Geometry of intricately fabricated glass makes light trap itself
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Killing coronavirus with handheld ultraviolet light device may be feasible
Bus under UV light

A personal, handheld device emitting high-intensity ultraviolet light to disinfect areas by killing the novel coronavirus is now feasible.

Penn State Learning honors outstanding guided study group leaders
Lion shrine with flowers

Two students have received the Outstanding Guided Study Group (GSG) Leader Award for the spring 2020 semester.

Physics graduate student coordinates hundreds of local mask makers
Huxford at sewing machine

A group led by a physics graduate student has donated more than 2,500 cloth masks to the local community during the COVID-19 outbreak.

ICDS awards computational and data sciences seed grants to Eberly researchers
diagram for ICDS seed grants

Eight projects by Eberly researchers have been awarded seed grants from the Penn State Institute for Computational and Data Sciences.

Five Penn State researchers awarded grants by Kaufman Foundation
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The Charles E. Kaufman Foundation has selected two projects led by Penn State researchers to receive New Initiatives grants.

Quantum copycat: Researchers find a new way in which bosons behave like fermions
Light trap apparatus
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