Physical Sciences

Undergraduate Researcher Watches Baby Galaxies Grow Up
Christopher Wolf, a Penn state astronomy major, looked back into the early universe to find and study baby galaxies.
Ashtekar Receives Honorary Doctorate from France
Ashtekar Receives Honorary Doctorate from France
Penn State Joins Major Astronomical Survey
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey's 2.5-meter telescope at the Apache Point Observatory in the Sacramento Mountains of New Mexico is on the left. Credit: SDSS.
Obama Bestows National Medal of Science on Benkovic
Stephen J. Benkovic is awarded the National Medal of Science by President Barack Obama in the East Room of the White House. Credit: Andy Colwell, Penn State.
Scientists Demystify an Enzyme Responsible for Drug and Food Metabolism
Enzymes in the family named P450 are responsible for metabolizing many commonly used drugs. Credit: Ragesoss, via Wikimedia Commons
Scientists Discover How the Songbird's Brain Controls Timing During Singing
Adult zebra finch. Credit: Alfonso Jr. via Wikimedia Commons.
Japanese and U.S. Space Telescopes Reveal Previously Unknown Brilliant X-Ray Explosion in Our Milky Way Galaxy
Credit: JAXA/RIKEN/MAXI team
$8-Million National Science Foundation Grant for International Dark-Energy Project Includes Penn State Scientists
Artist's concept of the upgraded Hobby-Eberly Telescope. The VIRUS spectrographs are contained in the curved gray "saddlebags" on the side of the telescope. They receive light through the green cables, which contain bundles of fiber-optic lines. This illustration shows the telescope without its enclosing dome. Credit: McDonald Observatory/HETDEX Collaboration
Stephen Benkovic to Receive National Medal of Science
Stephen Benkovic Awarded the 2011 National Academy of Sciences Award in Chemical Sciences
Jacob Howell, Astronomy Major, Explores Mysterious Exploding Stars
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