Physical Sciences

Q&A with Scott Showalter and Emery Usher
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Showalter and Usher with tall lab equipment

A Q&A with Penn State chemists describes how two proteins work together turn on and off the gene that codes for insulin.

Chemistry Majors Named Recipients of John and Elizabeth Holmes Teas Scholarship
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Teas
Elusive mergers of black holes with neutron stars confirmed for first time
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illustration of blue neutron star merging into black hole, with colorful swirls surrounding it

For the first time, a research team including Penn State astronomers have detected a collision between a black hole and a neutron star.

Penn State senior earns Astronaut Scholarship supporting STEM research careers
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Owen Chase outside

Penn State astronomy undergraduate Owen Chase has received an Astronaut scholarship.

The give and take of mega-flares from stars
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Two images containing some of the thousands of stars from a new survey by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory

Largest survey of star-forming regions using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory clarifies the relationships between star flares and planets

Stewart A. Mallory Joins Department of Chemistry Faculty
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Stewart Mallory
Elvira Sayfutyarova Joins Department of Chemistry Faculty
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Elvira Sayfutyarova
New X-ray map reveals the growing supermassive black holes in next-generation survey fields
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XMM-Newton image of the 3.2-square-degree ELAIS-S1 field

Penn State astronomers lead X-ray survey mapping supermassive black holes using the ESA’s XMM-Newton space observatory

James Hodges Joins Faculty of Department of Chemistry
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James Hodges
Lukas Muechler Joins Faculty of Department of Chemistry
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Lukas Muechler
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