Physical Sciences

Penn State LIGO scientists celebrate 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics
Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish, and Kip S. Thorne—winners of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics. Original illustrations: Niklas Elmehed; Photo: Lovisa Engblom.
Wolszczan awarded Bohdan Paczynski Medal
Alexander Wolszczan, Evan Pugh Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at Penn State, was presented with the Bohdan Paczynski Medal during the opening ceremony of the 38th meeting of the Polish Astronomical Society in Zielona Gora, Poland
IceCube researcher, Philipp Eller, wins poster prize
Philipp Eller
New gravitational wave hits Earth -- For the first time, 3 detectors zoom in on its location
Chad Hanna demonstrates gravitational waves via ripples in water. Credit: Michelle Bixby, Penn State.
Mystery solved: Super-energetic space particles crash to Earth from far, far away
Graduate students from the Miguel Mostafá Lab, visiting the 1600th detector of the large Pierre Auger Observatory array in western Argentina. Credit: Miguel Mostafá, Penn State.
Simpson and Priestley Lectures set for October 2 and 3, 2017
Balasubramanian poses for the camera.
NASA selects Arcus for Phase A studies
An artist's rendering showing the Arcus telescope, a proposed X-ray mission concept that has been selected for a Phase A study as part of the $250 million NASA Medium-Class Explorer (MIDEX) program. Credit: SAO/Orbital ATK
Zhu receives NSF Convergence grant
Jun Zhu, associate professor of physics. Credit: Penn State
New Gravitational-Wave Data Analysis Now Underway
This artist's conception shows two merging black holes similar to those detected by LIGO. Image: LIGO/Caltech/MIT/Sonoma State (Aurore Simonnet)
Penn State gearing up for 2017 solar eclipse event
This unique map shows the path of the moon’s umbral shadow—in which the sun will be completely obscured by the moon—during the total solar eclipse of August 21, 2017, as well as the fraction of the sun’s area covered by the moon outside the path of totality. Credit: NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio
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