Physical Sciences

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.
Steve Aro places 2nd at the PPG Pitch Competition
Paul Cremer receives 2016 ANACHEM award
Erica Frankel awarded the NASA Pennsylvania Space Grant Graduate Fellowship
New gravitational-wave finder scores again
Aerial view of the LIGO gravitational wave detector in Livingston, Louisiana. Credit: LIGO.
Albert elected to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Reka Albert
Physics Major Sylvia Biscoveanu Awarded a Goldwater Scholarship
Sylvia Biscoveanu at lab bench
The Eberly College of Science at the Frontier of Gravitational Wave Research
Science Journal June 2016 cover with gravitational waves
Penn State on Stage at the LIGO Announcement
France Cordova and Gabriela Gonzalez
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