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 ...

A rare, extremely luminous X-ray outburst has been observed in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy that is a close neighbor of our own Milky Way galaxy. The observations, made by the Neil ...

Motivated by applications to water quality monitoring using fluorescence spectroscopy, this talk will develop a source apportionment model for high dimensional profiles of dissolved organic matter ...

Two faculty members from the Penn State Eberly College of Science have been elected as Fellows of the American Physical Society (APS), the world’s largest organization dedicated to physics. The new ...

Sara Seager, an astrophysicist and planetary scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will present the joint Science Achievement Graduate Fellows-Russell Marker Lecture in Astronomy and ...

A toxic version of a certain protein may affect brain, spinal cord and skeletal muscle tissues differently, leading to the complex development and progression of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), ...

Twelve Penn State faculty members received Fulbright Scholar Awards for the 2024-25 academic year, according to the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program. An additional four faculty members have been named ...

Penn State chemistry graduate students Sanjana Krishna Mani and Yu-Ching Tseng of the Sen research group have been recognized with “Best Flash Presentation” awards at the American Chemical Society ...

Jainendra Jain, Evan Pugh University Professor and Erwin W. Mueller Professor in Physics and Holder of the Eberly Family Chair in Physics, has been elected a Foreign Fellow of the Indian National ...

Shabnam Akhtari, professor of mathematics, is interested in number theory, an old branch of mathematics that is focused on the study of numbers, particularly integers or whole numbers. She uses ...

Numerical optimization plays a vital role in the design of complex engineered systems. Real world engineered systems are seldom designed based on a single objective; rather they involve multiple ...

Density estimation methods often involve kernels, but there are advantages to using splines. Especially if the shape of the density is known to be decreasing, or unimodal, or bimodal, or if the ...