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 ...

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 ...

Public health strategies, from vaccination to improving sanitary conditions, may have different impacts depending on whether a disease is endemic — persisting in a particular location for an extended ...

About one-third of the food eaten by Americans comes from crops pollinated by honey bees, yet the insect is dying off at alarming rates. In one year alone, between April of 2019 and April of 2020, one ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Seventy years ago, in Osmond Laboratory on Penn State’s University Park campus, Erwin W. Müller, Evan Pugh Research Professor of Physics, became the first person to see an atom.

The sunflower family tree revealed that flower symmetry evolved multiple times independently, a process called convergent evolution, among the members of this large plant family, according to a new ...

The motion of particles in a classical gas is famously chaotic. A simple and common consequence of this chaos is that an enclosed gas equilibrates to a single temperature, which is why letting cold ...

Every Tuesday or Thursday, Eric Simring goes to prison. He drives to Quehanna Boot Camp in Karthaus, PA, or Benner Correctional Facility in Bellefonte, PA, to teach mathematics to inmates. “But these ...

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.

Instructors use a variety of technologies in their courses, from online homework and assessment tools to grading platforms and student learning aides. Now, new and evolving AI tools have the potential ...

Editor's note: This story was written by Todd LaJeunesse, Wilson Hewitt Professor of Biology, and Caleb Butler, graduate student in ecology, for the Penn State Institute of Energy and the ...

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