Physical Sciences

Nova-like explosion of spinning live bacteria explained
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NASA scientist to present Friedman Lecture in Astronomy on April 10, 2018
Joseph Masiero
Penn State to participate in consortium to demonstrate remote monitoring of nuclear reactors
Boulby potash, polyhalite and salt mine on the northeast coast of England is Great Britain's deepest mine and the home of the Science and Technology Facilities Council’s Boulby Underground Laboratory. The mine, operated by ICL-UK /Cleveland Potash Ltd, is expected to be the site of the Advanced Instrumentation Testbed project, a new international multi-laboratory and university collaboration for nonproliferation research.
NASA set to launch Penn State led experiment
Randall McEntaffer, professor of astronomy and astrophysics and of physics at Penn State and principal investigator of WRX, works on the instrument during integration at the NASA Flight Facility. Credit NASA/Berit Bland
Matthews receives 2018 Penn State Alumni Achievement Award
Megan Matthews
Study of climate change could lead to understanding future of infectious disease
"How to Hunt for Signs of Alien Life," a free public lecture on February 24
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Squire Booker selected as Holder of the Eberly Distinguished Chair in Science
Squire Booker
Big black holes outpace their galaxies in growth
An image from the Chandra Deep Field-South (blue, the deepest ever obtained in X-rays) combined with an optical and infrared image from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST; red, green, and blue). Each Chandra source is produced by hot gas falling towards a supermassive black hole in the center of the host galaxy, as depicted in the artist’s illustration.
"What makes a planet habitable?" is a free public lecture on February 17
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