Our first glimpses into the physics that exist near the center of a black hole are being made possible using “loop quantum gravity” — a theory that uses quantum mechanics to extend gravitational physics beyond Einstein’s theory of general relativity.
A newly discovered protein could help detect, target and collect from the environment the rare-earth metals used in smartphones.
Nhi “Titi” Tran of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, will be honored as the student marshal for the Eberly College of Science during Penn State’s fall commencement ceremonies on Saturday, Dec. 15, on the University Park campus.
As 2018 draws to a close, we review a small, representative selection of achievements and visual reflections on the year at Penn State, from among the many University-wide accomplishments in academics, research, athletics, student life and entrepreneurship. View a photo gallery and collection of news highlights at https://news.psu.edu/gallery/551371/2018/12/11/2018-year-pictures
Students in the Schreyer Honors College formed a Penn State chapter for Remote Area Medical, a nonprofit provider of mobile medical clinics, and are laying the groundwork to bring one of those clinics to Pennsylvania for the first time.
The EQT Foundation, the charitable arm of Pittsburgh-based EQT Corp., has gifted $121,350 to WPSU Penn State for further development and expansion of its Science-U @ Home multiplatform programming. Science-U @ Home presents brief television segments, two-minute online educational videos, and do-it-yourself experiments for teachers, parents and children that build on curriculum delivered by the Eberly College of Science at Penn State Science-U summer camps.
More than 600 promising new antimalarial drug candidates that inhibit the malaria parasite at an earlier stage in its lifecycle than most current drugs have been identified from a screen of more than 500,000 chemical compounds.
In the drive to find new ways to extend electronics beyond the use of silicon, physicists are experimenting with other properties of electrons, beyond charge. In work published today (Dec 7) in the journal Science, a team led by Penn State professor of physics Jun Zhu describes a way to manipulate electrons based on their energy in relation to momentum — called “valley degree of freedom.”
A team of materials scientists from Penn State, Cornell and Argonne National Laboratory have, for the first time, visualized the 3D atomic and electron density structure of the most complex perovskite crystal structure system decoded to date.
Penn State recently invested in an upgrade to its portion of the data grid that will roughly quadruple the cluster’s capacity for conducting cutting-edge astronomy and astrophysics research.
A new $2.4 million-dollar program to train graduate students in the area of eukaryotic gene regulation has been established at Penn State.
Professor Fuqing Zhang in Penn State’s College of Earth and Mineral Sciences has been elected as a 2018 Fellow of the American Geophysical Union. Fellows are selected based on their exemplary leadership abilities and research contributions in the Earth and space fields.
Corals and the microorganisms they host have evolved together for hundreds of millions of years. Understanding this long-term relationship could add fresh insight to the fight to save the Earth’s embattled coral reefs
Some lizards in the eastern U.S. have adapted to invasive fire ants, reversing geographical trends in behavioral and physical traits used to avoid predators.
Katriona Shea, professor of biology and Alumni Professor in the Biological Sciences has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
