Physical Sciences

Kenneth Knappenberger named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
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Kenneth Kappenberger
Did early life need long, complex molecules to make cell-like compartments?
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Membraneless compartments made from short polymers
Chemistry Students Receive Continuing Graduate Student Awards
16-year-old cosmic mystery solved, revealing stellar missing link
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blue ring nebula

Astronomers may have solved the mystery of the blue ring nebula.

Lauren Zarzar awarded an Air Force Young Investigator Program research grant
Oil droplet predators chase oil droplet prey
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Oil droplets in surfactant solution
Q&A with the Penn State LIGO group
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Artist impression of gravitational waves generated by binary neutron stars. Credit: R. Hurt, Caltech/JPL
Next-generation astronomical survey makes its first observations toward a new understanding of the cosmos
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starfield and two panels of graphs

The fifth phase of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey collected its first data on Oct 24, 2020.

Ganesh Anand Joins Faculty of Department of Chemistry
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Ganesh Anand
Models for potential precursors of cells endure simulated early-Earth conditions
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Membraneless compartments
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