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NSF funds national user facility for $17.8 million to develop 2-D crystals

Artistic representation of growth and characterization of 2D materials -- tungsten disulfide on graphene Credit: Terrones Lab / Penn State

Mikael Rechtsman receives Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in physics

New clues in the hunt for the sources of cosmic neutrinos

This illustration is an example of a hidden cosmic-ray accelerator. Cosmic rays are accelerated up to extremely high energies in dense environments close to black holes. High-energy gamma rays (marked by the “Y” gamma symbol) are blocked from escaping, while neutrinos (marked by the “V”nu symbol) easily escape and can reach the Earth. Credit: Bill Saxton at NRAO/AUI/NSF, modified by Kohta Murase at Penn State University

Gravitational waves detected 100 years after Einstein's Prediction: Opens New Window on the Universe with Observation of Gravitational Waves from Colliding Black Holes

Merging black holes ripple space and time in this artist's concept. Image credit: Swinburne Astronomy Productions

What Happens When LIGO Texts You to Say it's Detected One of Einstein's Predicted Gravitational Waves

These plots show the signals of gravitational waves detected by the twin LIGO observatories at Livingston, Louisiana, and Hanford, Washington. The signals came from two merging black holes, each about 30 times the mass of our sun, lying 1.3 billion light-years away. LIGO, CC BY-ND

Transforming Science Education with Tombros Fellowships

Robinett’s Advising Enhances the Student Experience

Penn State Scientists part of team that wins 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics

Fish-eye photo of the SNO Detector. Credit SNO

Ultrasensitive Sensors Made from Boron-Doped Graphene

Boron atoms (orange) in a lattice of graphene (gray) sense gas molecules on the graphene surface. Credit: Terrones Lab/Penn State

Penn State receives two awards for materials research and education

Partnerships for Research and Education in Materials (PREM) involve outreach to excite budding scientists. Here, students discover how scientists control structure and defects to create certain properties in materials using a sheet of ball bearings. The students were visiting the Strange Matter Exhibit at the Casa Roig Museum in Humacao, Puerto Rico.

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