Physical Sciences

Breakthrough Prize winner Jocelyn Bell Burnell to present Science Achievement Graduate Fellows (SAGF) Lecture January 25
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
$1 million Army grant aimed at adaptive fluid materials
Searching the stars

Penn State is growing the global SETI community, looking for intelligent life across the cosmos

2019 Lectures on the Frontiers of Science
Beyond the black hole singularity
Bacterial protein could help find materials for your next smartphone
A structural model of the compact metal-bound form of the lanmodulin protein, which is 100-million times better at binding to lanthanides—the rare-earth metals used in smartphones and other technologies—than to other metals like calcium. Credit: Penn State
Chemistry Department Holiday Reception!
Unprecedented screen of 500,000 compounds reveals new candidates for malaria prevention drug
An international research team has identified more than 600 new antimalarial drug candidates from a screen of over 500,000 chemical compounds. Credit: Llinás lab, Penn State
Penn State set to lead on new exoplanet science priorities
The Hobby-Eberly Telescope — one of the world’s largest optical telescopes and a premier planet-finding facility, conceived by Penn State astronomers. Credit: Penn State
Hot temperatures can trigger an RNA response in plants
A new study used rice seedlings to demonstrate that the stress of hotter temperatures may trigger a response in a plant’s RNA to manage the change in its environment. Photo Credit: Peter Nguyen
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