Physical Sciences

Potts to Represent Penn State's Eberly College of Science as Student Marshal at Spring Commencement
Kristin Potts
Probing Question: Could the Large Hadron Collider create a black hole that would swallow the Earth?
Particle detector at the Large Hadron Collider. Credit: CERN
Geriatric Pulsar Discovered and Found Still Kicking
The composite image on the left shows an image from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory in purple and an optical image from the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) in red, blue and white. Credits: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Penn State/G.Pavlov et al.; Optical: ESO/VLT/UCL/R.Mignani et al; Illustration: CXC/M. Weiss
Asbury Wins NSF CAREER Award
John Asbury
Benkovic Honored as "Best of the Best" in Life Science by the Franklin Institute
Stephen J. Benkovic
Asbury Wins 3M Nontenured Faculty Award
John Asbury
Molecular Machines Drive Plasmonic Nanoswitches
Gamma-Ray Fireworks Now Erupting from Rare Stellar Object
Credit: NASA/Swift/Jules Halpern (Columbia Univ.)
Scientists Find New Way to Produce Hydrogen
Castleman_Alum. clusters reacting with water
Easy Assembly of Electronic Biological Chips
Pile of nanowires before assembly. Credit: Christine Keating, Penn State
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