Mauricio Terrones Named Verne M. Willaman Professor of Physics
Adding a carbon atom transforms 2D semiconducting material
Schematic of plasma assisted carbon-hydrogen species doping in the WS2 lattice. Credit: Fu Zhang, Penn State
New NSF-funded center to explore chemistry of “nanothreads”
John Badding, professor of chemistry, physics, and materials science and engineering at Penn State, holding a 3D model of a polytwistane nanothread, the focus of the new NSF Center for Nanothread Chemistry. Credit: Nate Follmer, Penn State
Toward Cosmic Insight
Computer-generated image of the Swift Observatory satellite.
Science Achievement Graduate Fellows
Fellowship namesake scientist inspiring the fellowship names for each department.
LIGO and Virgo Detect Neutron Star Smash-Ups
Illustration of two merging neutron stars. The rippling space-time grid represents gravitational waves that travel out from the collision. Credit: National Science Foundation/LIGO/Sonoma State University/A. Simonnet
Penn State physics student joins forces with NASA in Norway
Penn State student Joshua Norfolk standing above the beach beside the Andøya Space Center.
First ever open public alerts from LIGO: Two probable black-hole mergers spotted in first weeks after gravitational-wave detector is updated
LIGO Laboratory operates two detector sites, one near Hanford in eastern Washington, and another near Livingston, Louisiana. This photo shows the Hanford detector site. Credit: Caltech/MIT/LIGO Lab
Axtell and Rigol receive 2019 Faculty Scholar Medals
Michael Axtell, professor of biology, and Marcos Rigol, professor of physics.
Extremely accurate measurements of atom states for quantum computing
New method allows extremely accurate measurement of the quantum state of atomic qubits—the basic unit of information in quantum computers. Credit: Weiss Laboratory, Penn State
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