Physical Sciences

Peter Craig Breen Memorial Award Given for First Time
Collaboration Leads to Great Achievement: Amie Boal and Squire Booker
50 Years at Penn State: Steve and Pat Benkovic and Harry and Noreen Allcock
Closing in on high-temperature superconductivity
This composite image contains an equation in the foreground related to Penn State theory research in high-temperature superconductivity, and images in the background resulting from high-temperature superconductivity experiments. Credit: Penn State University
Chemistry Wins Departmental Safety Competition at 2016 Safety Olympics
Tae-Hee Lee's August ACS Presentation covered by C&EN Magazine
Swift telescope detects slowest-spinning neutron star
Composite photo of the slowest spinning neutron star discovered so far (9-2016): background stars photographed in optical wavelengths; colorful cloud is the supernova remnant RCW 103, photographed in X-ray wavelengths, with the white neutron star at its center. Image credit: X-ray:NASA/CXC/University of Amsterdam/N.Rea et al; Optical:Digital Sky Survey
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
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