Physical Sciences

Seven faculty from the Eberly College of Science featured on Clarivate Analytics’ 2017 Highly Cited Researchers List
Jan Winter 2018 Science Journal Cover bench bedside
Ultra-cold atoms chilled and trapped with light enable unimaginable discoveries
David Weiss
The hunt for more planets to call home
Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona
The Arisian Lens
ESTABLISHING THE RESOLUTION OF THE ARISIAN LENS To determine the resolution limit of the Arisian Lens, the Mahadevan team used a standard created by the United States Air Force. Resolution is determined by the largest set of three bars that a system cannot distinguish. The Arisian Lens was able to distinguish even the smallest group of bars, suggesting that it has a resolution limit at, or below, 0.78μm. Credit: Arpita Roy, Mahadevan Lab
New $18M facility catalyzes synthesis and novel study of 2D materials
This sophisticated apparatus in Davey Lab will allow scientists to create new two-dimensional materials and study them, still in vacuum, at the atomic scale. Photo credit: Nate Follmer
New sodium-ion electrolyte may find use in solid-state batteries
An interdisciplinary team discovered a new structure of a material that may one day replace the materials used in rechargeable consumer electronics batteries. Credit: Penn State
Alumna Sylvia Biscoveanu awarded Soros Fellowship
Sylvia Biscoveanu
Nobel Laureate Rainer Weiss presents “Probing the Universe with Gravitational Waves” on April 18, 2018
Rainer Weiss / credit Bryce Vickmark
Chemistry 2018 Graduate Student Awards
Nova-like explosion of spinning live bacteria explained
Image: iStock Photo / gremlin
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