My research interests lie in the study of high-energy particles in the cosmic-ray flux, as windows on fundamental processes and laws governing the Universe. I am involved in a number of collaborative ...

Many materials store information about what has happened to them in a sort of material memory, like wrinkles on a once crumpled piece of paper. Now, a team led by Penn State physicists has uncovered ...

Students must constantly navigate new tools and technology to help them learn class material. They want to do as well as possible in their classes, but somewhere there is a line, that if crossed, ...

“I am excited to help establish LTPI as a world-class center, with internationally competitive faculty, exceptional postdoctoral researchers and a vibrant visitors’ program — an environment designed ...

Essentially all cells in an organism’s body have the same genetic blueprint, or genome, but the set of genes that are actively expressed at any given time in a cell determines what type of cell it ...

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 ...

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.

Nanyin Zhang, the Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Chair in Brain Imaging and professor of biomedical engineering, of electrical engineering and of engineering science and mechanics; Patrick Drew, ...

Delta Gold Technologies, a technology company focused on developing intellectual property in the quantum computing sector, has signed a three-year, $3 million research agreement with Kenneth ...

It is with great sadness that we share the news of the passing of C.R. Rao, Emeritus Holder of the Eberly Family Chair in Statistics at Penn State. Rao, who was 102 years old, died Tuesday, August 22, ...

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 ...

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 ...