'Pop' goes the rocket: Arts Fest workshop to ignite kids' curiosity in STEM
Drew Veenis, left, places a rocket on a hard surface while fellow graduate students Ryan Szukalo and Varun Mandalaparthy look on. Credit: Patrick Mansel
Hedglin Group Makes Strides in Cancer Research
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Ants maintain essential interactions despite environmental flux
Male black carpenter ant, Camponotus pennsylvanicus. Photo Credit: Bruce Marlin
Harvesters of Light
Striking a piece of coral with a laser light demonstrates the impressive distribution of light throughout. Photo credit: Patrick Mansell
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
Elacqua Group Makes Strides in Overcoming Bottlenecks in Polymer Science
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
Gravitational forces in protoplanetary disks may push super-Earths close to their stars
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
How the bumble bee got its stripes
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