Physical Sciences

Vulnerability of Power Grid Centers on Key Junctions
Reka Albert Named a Fellow of the American Physical Society
Strong New Evidence of a Supersolid Phase of Matter
Strong New Evidence of a Supersolid Phase of Matter
Physics Gravity Model Applicable to Disease Spread
Ottar Bjornstad
Sloan Digital Sky Survey Supports Dark Energy as the Primary Constituent of the Universe
This figure shows the SDSS spectrum of a quasar at a distance of 12 billion light years.
Chandra Looks Over a Cosmic Four-Leaf Clover
The Cloverleaf quasar is a single object whose image has been reproduced four times in a cloverleaf-like arrangement through a process known as gravitational lensing.
Making Black Holes Go 'Round on the Computer
Credit: Bruegmann, Tichy, Jansen 2004 Black hole binary after about one orbit. The black surfaces represent the black holes; whatever falls behind this black hole "horizon" can never escape again. The colored plane shows a measure for the distortion of spacetime. The numerical method has succeeded in keeping the data smooth and undistorted.
Penn State Senior Wins Multiple Awards for Graduate Study in England
Robert R. Johnson Selected as Student Marshal for Penn State Eberly College of Science
Hobby-Eberly Telescope Witnesses Vaporizing of a Comet-like Body by a Very Young Hot Star
Location of the star LKHa 234 in the star-forming nebula NGC 7129 Photo: Lars Lindberg Christensen, ESA/Hubble
Penn State Senior Wins Award for Thesis Proposal
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