Physical Sciences

Ashtekar elected as a member of the National Academy of Sciences
Abhay Ashtekar
Chad Hanna appointed as the Norman and Trygve Freed Early Career Professor in Physics
Chad Hanna standing on the roof of the control room of the LIGO gravitational wave detector in Livingston, Louisiana. One of the 4km arms of the LIGO detector stretches into the distance at the top left of the photo. Credit: Penn State University.
Record-breaking map of 1.2-million galaxies now ready to reveal secrets of dark energy
This image shows one slice through the map of the large-scale structure of the universe from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and its Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey. Image credit: Daniel Eisenstein and SDSS-III
AstroFest 2016 is Four Evenings of Astronomy Activities and Stargazing During Arts Festival
AstroFest T-shirt Design
Physics Graduate Student Kelly Malone Receives DOE Award
Physics graduate student Kelly Malone at the High Altitude Water Cherenkov Gamma-Ray Observatory (HAWC), located in Puebla, Mexico.
Kyra Murrell selected for 2016 SciFinder Future Leaders Program
Ben Lear promoted to Associate Professor
Alex Radosevich promoted to Associate Professor
New, better way to build circuits for world's first useful quantum computers
The research team led by David Weiss at Penn State University performed a specific single quantum operation on individual atoms in a P-S-U pattern on three separate planes stacked within a cube-shaped arrangement. Credit: David Weiss lab, Penn State University
Fastest-spinning brown-dwarf star is detected by its bursts of radio waves
An artist's impression of a brown dwarf star. Credit: R. Hurt/NASA.
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