Physical Sciences

Lauren Zarzar receives Marion Milligan Mason Award
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Lauren Zarzar
Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment survey begins full operations
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Hobby-Eberly Telescope at dusk
Astronomers develop model for the distribution of inner planetary systems
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many planetary systems

A new study helps explain some of the intriguing questions about exoplanets raised by the Kepler space telescope.

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
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