Physical Sciences

Scientists Discover New Planet Orbiting Dangerously Close to Giant Star
An artist's impression of a red supergiant engulfing a Jupiter-like planet as it expands. Credit: NASA
C.I. Noll Award Presented to Hanna-Rose and Hopkins
Penn State Ranked in Top 5 for Astrophysics Research
Credit: NASA Penn State plays a major role in the design and operation of NASA's Swift satellite, which is discovering titanic explosive events billions of light-years from Earth.
Scott Phillips Wins Dreyfus Foundation's New-Faculty Award
Scott Phillips Receives Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow Award
Mercedes Richards Receives Musgrave Gold Medal
Mercedes Richards
Center for Nanoscale Science Receives $13.2 Million NSF Grant
Silencing a Protein Could Kill T-Cells, Reverse Leukemia
John Collins Wins 2009 J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics
Scientists Use Light to Control Proteins
Credit: Benkovic lab, Penn State The scientists attached a light-sensing protein (sensor) from oat plant to an enzyme from E. coli. When they shined white light (stimulus) on the sensor, the enzyme's acitvity increased (output).
Metal Particles That Power Themselves to Move Like Living Cells
Ayusman Sen Awarded the Medal of the Chemical Research Society of India
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