Castleman Receives Thomas W. Phelan Fellows Award
Bojowald Awarded Xanthopoulos Prize
Physicists Demonstrate How Information Can Escape From Black Holes
Credit: ESA / V. Beckmann (NASA-GSFC) An artist's depiction of the accretion of a thick ring of dust into a supermassive black hole. The accretion produces jets of gamma rays and X-rays.
Jainendra K. Jain Honored by American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Samarth Earns Faculty Scholar Medal for 2008
Biocapture Surfaces Produced for Study of Brain Chemistry
A single layer of molecules (red lines) that resists biomolecule binding is first self-organized on a gold substrate. Credit: Mitchell J. Shuster and Thomas J. Mullen, Penn State
Discovery Links Highest-Energy Cosmic Rays with Violent Black Holes
Credit: Pierre Auger Observatory A surface detector station with the Andes in the background
Penn State Profiles: Reka Albert, Model Researcher
A network-based model of guard cell signaling in plants, created by physicist Reka Albert in collaboration with plant physiologist Sarah Assmann. Drought conditions cause plants to produce the hormone abscisic acid (ABA, top), which triggers guard cells to close leaf pores (bottom), conserving water.
What Happened Before the Big Bang?
Credit: Martin Bojawald, Penn State Spreading through a bounce: A state that initially has small fluctuations (left) bounces and develops larger fluctuations (right). Time proceeds along the horizontal axis, with the volume plotted vertically.
New Method to Directly Probe the Quantum Collisions of Individual Atoms
Credit: James Collins Kurt Gibble pictured with an atomic clock.
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