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 ...
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 ...
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 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 unusual radio pulses were detected by the Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA) experiment, a range of instruments flown on balloons high above Antarctica that are designed to detect radio ...
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 ...
I have received AP Credit for MATH 140 (I have received either a grade of 4 or 5 on the AB exam or a grade of 3 on the BC exam). Should I take MATH 140 or should I take MATH 141? Answer the questions ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
For information about internships, check out the Office of Science Engagement’s webpage https://science.psu.edu/science-engagement about the science internship ...
Department of Mathematics Undergraduate Undergraduate courses ALEKS ALEKS Practice Codes ...