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 ...

One of the many ways that research can make an impact on everyday life or address societal challenges is through a process called translation, an early part of technology transfer, where novel ideas ...

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 ...

Randy McEntaffer, head of the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, presents during a planetarium show at the Liberty Science Center's Jennifer Chalsty Planetarium, in Jersey City, New Jersey, on ...

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 ...

. The main theme of this mission is studying the properties of dark energy by analyzing the distribution of galaxies (Lyman-alpha emitters). In the current survey design, we shall observe about a ...

Research Interests 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 ...

Honors and Awards Wolf Prize in Physics, 2025 (Citation: For advancing our understanding of the surprising properties of two-dimensional electron systems in strong magnetic fields. Professors ...

Education Ph.D. in Physics, Tsinghua U. (China), 2013 B.S. in Optical Engineering, Shandong U. (China), 2007 Biography Professor, Penn State, 2024 – present Associate Professor, Penn State, 2022 - ...

11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Electronics built with semiconductor technologies —vtransistors and integrated circuits — have had tremendous societal impact in the past decades. The advent of the quantum ...

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 ...

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 ...