Penn State, University of Split partner to identify nun's remains
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sister and archbishop over tomb

Penn State and Croatian faculty identified the remains of a Croatian nun who is in consideration for beatification by the Vatican.

New antibiotic clears multi-drug resistant gonorrhea in mice in single dose
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illustration of gonorrhea bacteria

A new antibiotic compound clears infection of multi-drug resistant gonorrhea in mice in a single oral dose, according to a new study.

The Disks That Make Solar Systems Flat
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A newly formed star surrounded by a rotating disk of gas and dust, called a protoplanetary disk.
HETDEX and the ‘Quest for the Rest’
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Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment from the Winter 2021 issue of the Science Journal.

The search for dark energy could help illuminate the origin, evolution, and eventual fate of our universe

Detail in the Debris
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Jiayin Dong from the Winter 2021 issue of the Science Journal
Person to Person: Caryl Gronwall
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Caryl Gronwall featured image for the Winter 2021 issue of the Science Journal.
Can We Detect Binary Supermassive Black Holes?
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Michael Eracleous
Beyond the Limits of Observation
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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

Theory is informed by data in describing the early universe

Modifying the Mosaic
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Sean Giery in the field from the Winter 2021 edition of the Science Journal.
Research Now - Winter 2021
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Science Journal hero universe
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