When stars collapse, they can leave behind incredibly dense but relatively small and cold remnants called neutron stars. If two stars collapse in close proximity, the leftover binary neutron stars ...

Professor Emeritus Michael Brin of the University of Maryland has endowed an international prize for outstanding work in the theory of dynamical systems and related areas. The prize is given for ...

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 ...

J. Martin Bollinger Jr., professor of chemistry and of biochemistry and molecular biology, has been named a recipient of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) William C.

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 ...

Students follow the suggested academic plan (SAP) that corresponds with the semester they began at Penn State. For example, if your first semester at Penn State was Spring 2023, you would use the ...

. Click on the Education Exams Tab to find a full description of the actuarial examinations including subjects such as topics of the exams, textbooks, schedules, locations and application forms. This ...

Penn State Postdoctoral Society (PSPS) Physics Postdoc Slack Channel (contact a Postdoc Professional Development Committee member for access) Physics Department Community Meetings Wednesdays ...

Some of our students that conduct research are selected to speak at the conferences and meetings of various professional organizations. These presentations may be platform oral presentations or poster ...

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 ...

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 ...