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 ...

Selected Publications Crystalline symmetry protected number-conserving Majorana mode in Dirac semimetal nanowires, Rui-Xing Zhang, Chao-Xing Liu, Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 156802 (2018) Singlet-Quintet ...

Professional Appointments and Affiliations Professor of Chemistry Office 205 Benkovic Building University Park, PA 16802 Education B. A., Swarthmore College, 2000 M. S., University of Minnesota, 2002 ...

Offices and Centers Grove Center for Excellence in Science Education Office for Innovation Office for Undergraduate Students Office of Development and Alumni ...

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 ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — By combining forefront X-ray observations with state-of-the-art supercomputer simulations of the buildup of galaxies over cosmic history, researchers have provided the best ...

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 ...

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 ...

About a thousand students each year pass through the sixth floor of Mueller Lab. Nestled among biology labs and study spaces, one lab in particular provides students with a unique opportunity to study ...

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 ...

A new method improves the extraction and separation of rare earth elements—a group of 17 elements critical for technologies such as smart phones and electric car batteries—from unconventional sources.

For information about internships, check out the Office of Science Engagement’s webpage https://science.psu.edu/science-engagement about the science internship ...