Physical Sciences

Coutu and Mostafá Elected as Fellows of the American Physical Society
Stephane Coutu, Miguel Mostafá
Rebekah Dawson awarded Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy
Rebekah Dawson
A tale of two pulsars' tails: Plumes offer geometry lessons to astronomers
An artist’s representation of what the three unusual tails of the pulsar Geminga may look like close up. NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory is giving astronomers a better look at pulsars and their associated pulsar wind nebulae, enabling new constraints on the geometry of pulsars and why they look the way they do from Earth. Credit: Illustrations by Nahks TrEhnl
Deepest x-ray image ever reveals black hole treasure trove
The image is from the Chandra Deep Field-South. The full field covers an approximately circular region on the sky with an area about two-thirds that of the full Moon. Image: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Penn State/B. Luo et al
Mak awarded 2016 Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering
Kin Fai Mak
Hobby-Eberly Telescope to be Rededicated
hobby eberly telescope
Physics Student Wins Big at International Physics Olympiad
Vincent Liu wearing medal and holding certificate
Designer mRNAs: A Radically New Approach to Optimizing Active Protein Yield
Ed O'Brien
"Cosmic Whistle" Packs a Surprisingly Energetic Punch
Discovery of the gamma-ray counterpart to FRB 131104, in wide-angle and zoomed-in views of Swift gamma-ray data. Credit: J. J. DeLaunay, Penn State University.
Stephen Aro Awarded ASSL Student Outstanding Oral Prize
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