Physical Sciences

Pipsqueak Star Unleashes Monster Flare
illustration credit: Casey Reed/NASA An artist's illustration of EV Lacertae, which produced the brightest flare ever seen from a normal star other than our Sun on 25 April 2008.
Li and Roiban Receive Sloan Foundation Fellowships
Castleman Receives Thomas W. Phelan Fellows Award
Tae-Hee Lee Receives Dreyfus New Faculty Award
Wolszczan Honored at Extreme Solar Systems Conference
Bojowald Awarded Xanthopoulos Prize
Hundreds of Missing Black Holes Found
Simple Model Cell is Key to Understanding Cell Complexity
Credit: Christine Keating, Penn State The model cell developed in the lab of Christine D. Keating at Penn State uses as the cytoplasm a solution of two different polymers, PEG and dextran (Panel A). The image in Panel B is the image in Panel A highlighted with fluorescent dyes.
Physicists Demonstrate How Information Can Escape From Black Holes
Credit: ESA / V. Beckmann (NASA-GSFC) An artist's depiction of the accretion of a thick ring of dust into a supermassive black hole. The accretion produces jets of gamma rays and X-rays.
Jainendra K. Jain Honored by American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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