Physical Sciences

Penn State Joins New Project to Map the Universe
The new SDSS will measure spectra at multiple points in the same galaxy, using a newly created fiber bundle technology. Credit: Dana Berry / SkyWorks Digital, Inc., David Law, SDSS Collaboration Hubble Space Telescope image credit: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration, and A. Evans (University of Virginia, Charlottesville/NRAO/Stony Brook University)
Penn State Science Faculty Get Involved With Science-U Summer Camps
Forensic Science Professor of Practice Jeni Smith teaches participants in a Science-U camp titled "Forensic DNA: Next-Generation Detectives."
The Birth of Topological Spintronics
The atomic layers of the topological insulator bismuth selenide are visible in this high-resolution electron microscope image. Credit: Penn State
Boal Named 2014 Searle Scholar
Amie Boal
Alex Radosevich Receives Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow Award
Alex Radosevich
Controversial Clues of Two 'Goldilocks Planets' That Might Support Life are Proven False
This image shows the location of the three planets remaining in 2014. Credit: NASA/Penn State University
Alex Radosevich Receives National Science Foundation CAREER Award
Alex Radosevich
Super-stretchable Yarn is Made of Graphene
Strong, stretchable fibers made of graphene oxide can be knotted like yarn. Image: Terrones group/Penn State
Photos of New Comet Approaching a Very Close Encounter with Mars
his composite of Comet Sliding Spring (C/2013 A1) merges images taken between May 27 and May 29, 2014 with the Ultraviolet Optical telecsope (UVOT) on the NASA's Swift satellite. Sunlight reflected from the comet's dust, which produces most of the light in this image, appears yellow. Ultraviolet light produced by hydroxyl (OH), a molecular fragment of water, appears violet in this image. Credit: NASA/Swift/D. Bodewits (UMD), DSS.
NASA Ranks Swift Satellite Number One
Artist rendering of the Swift satellite. Credit: NASA, Sonoma State University, Aurore Simonnet
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