Physical Sciences

Miriam Freedman Receives National Science Foundation CAREER Award
Miriam Freedman
Penn State is a Member of the New $678 million Telescope Now Approved for Construction
Click on the image for a high-resolution version. Artist's drawing of LSST in profile. Credit: Todd Mason, Mason Productions Inc. / LSST Corporation
Pygmy phenotype developed many times, adaptive to rainforest
A Batwa woman and her child in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park, Uganda. Image: Photo courtesy of George Perry/Penn State
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
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