Penn State Science Research

10/27/2016

http://ow.ly/xvsF305AHEo Eberly Astronomer, Jason Wright, making discoveries with the science team.

The astronomers will collect a whopping petabyte of data from the bizarre star.

08/24/2016

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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

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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, 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

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
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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

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