Physical Sciences

Needs salt: Table seasoning enables new nanomaterial development
several illustrated views of metallic nanotubules
New faculty fall 2025
Nittany Lion Shrine at University Park
Newly discovered ‘super-Earth’ offers prime target in search for alien life
illustration of a super-Earth exoplanet around a star. Credit: University of California Irvine
Lab Bench to Commercialization announces 2025 grant recipients
LB2C
Innovation Fellows’ Cohort for 2025 announced
bright idea
Old-school material could power quantum computing, cut data center energy use
graph demonstrating performance of a thin film
First measurement of a black hole's "kick" after cosmic collision
illustration of newborn black hole after black hole merger
Mixing neutrinos of colliding neutron stars changes how merger unfolds
simulation of neutron star merger remnant
Mysterious ‘red dots’ in early universe may be ‘black hole star’ atmospheres
artist's version of a black hole star, with section removed to see core
Black holes everywhere! Ten years of LIGO and gravitational waves
Illusrtration of merging black holes with swirling gravitational waves eminating from black hole at center
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