Physical Sciences

Mostafá and Dykstra awarded C.I. Noll Award for Excellence in Teaching
Miguel Mostafá, Sheryl Dykstra
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.
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