Physical Sciences

Mysterious cosmic explosion surprises astronomers studying the distant x-ray universe
Animation showing the variability of the discovered flaring X-ray source. The intensity of the source increased more than 1000 times and then declined to invisibility over a period of a few hours. CREDIT: NASA/CXC/F. Bauer et al.
Speeding Star Gives New Clues to Breakup of Multi-Star System
Scale and Compass Image for the Orion Nebula -- Credit: NASA, ESA, and STSci
“CosmoQuest: You can help discover our universe" is the Friedman Lecture on March 28, 2017
Pamela Gay
Ed O'Brien Selected for 2016 Priestly Teaching Prize
Chemistry Graduate Students Named NSF Graduate Fellows
Albert Welford Castleman, Jr., in Memoriam, 1936 to 2017
Kate Lebold Receives 2017 Phase-I Software Fellowship from the Molecular Sciences Software Institute
Penn State student Julie Fenton selected to meet with Nobel Laureates
Julie Fenton
Harry Allcock to receive international polymer award
Next-generation dark matter detector in a race to finish line: Mile-deep U.S.-based experiment is on a fast track to help solve science mystery
Assistant Professor of Physics Luiz de Viveiros and the LUX detector inside the water tank just before it was filled with 72,000 gallons of ultra-purified water, which helps to shield it from cosmic rays and other radiation that would interfere with a dark matter signal. LUX was removed in 2016, and the tank will be used to house the LUX-ZEPLIN detector. Credit: Matt Kapust, Sanford Underground Research Facility
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