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 ...

When on-campus labs were effectively shuttered in early 2020, scientists scrambled to find ways to continue their work. Biochemists and molecular biologists, in particular, struggled without the use ...

Artist's impression of a massive star-forming region in the NGC 6357 nebula, with the planet-forming disk XUE1 in the foreground. The region is drenched in intense ultraviolet light from massive stars ...

Up to date list of all my publications; Publications excluding LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC) papers; Publications that exclude all collaboration papers.; Observation of Gravitational Waves from ...

Research in the Zhu lab focuses on the exploration of fundamental and novel electronic properties of low-dimensional materials and nanostructures. Our current research interests include ...

Evan Pugh University Professor and Erwin W. Müller Professor in Physics and Holder of Eberly Family Chair "Composite-fermion pairing at half-filled and quarter-filled lowest Landau level," Anirban ...

Education. Ph. D. (Physics) University of Chicago, 1974 Doctor Rerum Naturalium Honoris Causa - Friedrich-Schiller Universitaet, Jena, Germany, 2005 ...

Education. Ph.D. in Physics, Tsinghua U. (China), 2013 B.S. in Optical Engineering, Shandong U. (China), 2007. Biography. Professor, Penn State, 2024 – present ...

An unusual planetary system with three known ultra-low density “super-puff” planets has at least one more planet, according to new research led by researchers from Penn State and Osaka University. The ...

Our application for Fall 2025 is now open! For priority review of your application, all materials need to be submitted by December 1, 2024. Your application will not be reviewed by the Admissions ...

A team led by Sarah Pfaff, postdoctoral scholar in biology, developed a method to isolate plant cells and reprogram them into other cell types, similar to the way stem cells differentiate into ...

A new technique allows astronomers to home in on planets beyond our solar system that are in line with each other and with Earth to search for radio signals similar, for example, to ones used to ...