Physical Sciences

Eric Nacsa receives 2024 NSF CAREER Award
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Eric Nacsa
Penn State physicist Zoltan Fodor named Distinguished Professor
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Zoltan Fodor
Combining materials may support unique superconductivity for quantum computing
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diagrams and graphs of material structure

Combining a ferromagnet and an antiferromagnet results in unique electrical properties.

Hubble traces ‘string of pearls’ star clusters in galaxy collisions
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image of galaxy with tail-like formation spiraling out of it

Each cluster within a tidal tail can contain as many as a milllion newborn stars.

Penn State alumnus Richard Silverman to present the Spring 2024 Harold Kohn Endowed Distinguished Chemistry Alumni Lecture
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Rick Silverman
Submissions now open for 2024 annual Materials Visualization Competition
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image of epitaxy, approach to fabricate thin crystalline film
Chemistry professor and colleague recognized with Institute of Energy and the Environment Award
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Five faculty wearing nice clothes line up
SolarFest offers April 8 eclipse viewing, science activities
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SolarFest, Tuesday, April 8, Medlar Field at Lubrano Park

The Eberly College of Science is partnering with the State College Spikes to host the SolarFest event at Medlar Field at Lubrano Park.

NASA’s Webb identifies tiniest free-floating brown dwarf
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Central portion of the star cluster IC 348 with three brown dwarfs shown

Astronomers have identified the new record-holder for the smallest object that forms like a star: a tiny, free-floating brown dwarf.

Spinning up control: Propeller shape helps direct nanoparticles, researchers say
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Aaronson and McGovern in lab
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