The collision and merger of two neutron stars — the incredibly dense remnants of collapsed stars — are some of the most energetic events in the universe, producing a variety of signals that can be ...

Related article at The Conversation. On September 14, 2015, a signal arrived on Earth, carrying information about a pair of remote black holes that had spiraled together and merged. The signal had ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — In 1955, Penn State Professor of Physics Erwin W. Müller became the first person to see an atom. Using a field ion microscope of his own invention — a landmark advance in ...

New computer simulations that model every atom of a protein as it folds into its final three-dimensional form support the existence of a recently identified type of protein misfolding. Proteins must ...

The Department of Physics welcomes its newest tenure-line faculty members. Thomas Iadecola, associate professor of physics, is a co-hire of the Penn State Institute for Computational and Data Sciences ...

Knowing how many people are vaccinated against an existing or re-emerging threat is a key factor guiding public health decisions, but such information is often sparse or non-existent in many regions, ...

The efficiency of quantum computers, sensors and other applications often relies on the properties of electrons, including how they are spinning. One of the most accurate systems for high performance ...

This year, the world is marking the 100th anniversary of quantum mechanics, the beginning of a scientific revolution so important that it prompted the United Nations to declare 2025 as the ...

Wen Jiang, Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Chair in Structural Biology and professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, investigates the structures of diverse biological systems using ...

The Eberly College of Science is committed to supporting our researchers in translating their research for society. Translation is an early part of technology transfer where scientific discoveries are ...

Thomas Building is home to the Eberly College of Science Dean's Office and Department of Statistics. It also houses members of the Forensic Science program, as well as general purpose classrooms and ...

Pierre-Emmanuel Jabin, professor of mathematics, has been selected to receive the title of distinguished professor of mathematics in recognition of his exceptional record of teaching, research, and ...