Research news from Penn State's Eberly College of Science.
10/27/2016
http://ow.ly/xvsF305AHEo Eberly Astronomer, Jason Wright, making discoveries with the science team.
Scientists aim largest telescope possible at ‘alien megastructure’ star The astronomers will collect a whopping petabyte of data from the bizarre star.
08/24/2016
Coral conservation efforts aided by computer simulations: New research... Contrary to a prevailing theory, coral larvae could not survive the five-thousand-kilometer trip across the Pacific Ocean to replenish endangered...
08/22/2016
Ashtekar elected as a member of the National Academy of Sciences
http://ow.ly/995e303t6BO
Ashtekar elected as a member of the National Academy of Sciences —... Penn State University Professor of Physics Abhay Ashtekar, Holder of the Eberly Family Chair in Physics and Director of the Penn State Institute...
07/29/2016
Chad Hanna appointed as the Norman and Trygve Freed Early Career Professor in Physics http://ow.ly/G8xn302JE8w
Chad Hanna appointed as the Norman and Trygve Freed Early Career... Chad Hanna, assistant professor of physics at Penn State University, has been honored with the inaugural Norman and Trygve Freed Early Career...
07/14/2016
Record-breaking map of 1.2-million galaxies now ready to reveal secrets of dark energy http://ow.ly/Vwbo302fib3
Record-breaking map of 1.2-million galaxies now ready to reveal secrets... Astronomers are announcing this week the sharpest view yet of the properties of dark energy -- the force that currently is driving the accelerated...
07/08/2016
New clues could help scientists harness the power of photosynthesis
http://ow.ly/FJ6c3023hJ6
New clues could help scientists harness the power of photosynthesis —... Identification of a gene needed to expand light harvesting in photosynthesis into the far-red-light spectrum provides clues to the development of...
06/27/2016
New, better way to build circuits for world's first useful quantum computers http://ow.ly/7cZu301G6R2
New, better way to build circuits for world's first useful quantum... The era of quantum computers is one step closer as a result of research published in the current issue of the journal Science. The research team...
06/27/2016
Fastest-spinning brown-dwarf star is detected by its bursts of radio waves http://ow.ly/ckbu301FUQV
06/16/2016
New gravitational-wave finder scores again http://ow.ly/eMwe301knpO
06/03/2016
Albert elected to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences http://ow.ly/X0jM300SZ8j
05/27/2016
Penn State scientists share in Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics http://ow.ly/W9SR300Exy4
05/26/2016
Discovered: Why warm galaxies stop birth of new stars http://ow.ly/aBME300Chgs