Physical Sciences

Chen Receives Amgen Young Investigator's Award
Chen Receives National Science Foundation Career Award
Mercedes Richards Honored as Woman Physicist of the Month by the American Physical Society
Mercedes Richards
Penn State Science Research Faculty Participate in a Workshop Aimed to Improve Science Education
Raymond Schaak, professor of chemistry
Nanoparticle Opens the Door to Clean-Energy Alternatives
A transmission-electron microscope image of a collection of quasi-spherical nickel phosphide nanoparticles. A team led by Raymond Schaak of Penn State University has found that these nanoparticles can catalyze an important chemical reaction that generates hydrogen from water. Credit: Eric Popczun, Penn State University
Best Ultraviolet Map of the Nearest Galaxies Now Revealed
Nearly a million ultraviolet sources appear in this mosaic of the Large Magellanic Cloud, which was assembled from 2,200 images taken by Swift's Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope. UV image credit: NASA/Swift/S. Immler (Goddard) and M. Siegel (Penn State). Visible image credit: Axel Mellinger, Central Michigan Univ.
Super-dense Star is First Ever Found Suddenly Slowing Its Spin
A neutron star is the densest object astronomers can observe directly, crushing half a million times Earth's mass into a sphere about 12 miles across -- roughly the size of Pittsburgh, or the distance between the Penn State University Park Campus and Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, as shown in this illustration. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and Penn State University
Record-Breaking High-Energy Particles from Space Detected by Telescope Buried in the Antarctic Ice
Sensor descends down a hole in the ice as part of the installation of the IceCube telescope. IceCube is among the most ambitious scientific construction projects ever attempted. Credit:NSF/B. Gudbjartsson
Brendan Mullan Selected as a 2013 National Geographic Emerging Explorer
Brendan Mullan
College marshal composes both musical compositions, chemical equations
Josh Laughner
AMON: An Eye on the Universe
Credit: Courtesy AMON
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