Research Press Releases — 2008
Research on Ancestral Plants Featured in Research | Penn State (9 April 2008)
Probing Question: What are Shooting Stars? (April 2008)
Physics Beyond Einstein: Contemplating Time's Beginning and End (26 March 2008)
Superbright Explosion is Most Distant Object Ever Visible to the Naked Eye (20 March 2008)
Single-Crystal Semiconductor Wire Built into an Optical Fiber (12 March 2008)
Allergic Response Tied to Lipid Molecules in Cell Membrane (7 March 2008)
Neutron Stars Join the Black-Hole Jet Set (1 February 2008)
Scientists Explore Factors Contributing to DNA Mutations (28 January 2008)
Rapidly Whirling Black Holes Discovered Spinning at Near Maximum Speed (10 January 2008)
Hidden Population of Powerful Black Holes Revealed in Large Sky Survey (8 January 2008)
$30 Million from Charles Simonyi and Bill Gates for LSST Astronomy Project (3 January 2008)
Daily Alcohol Use Causes Changes in Sexual Behavior, New Study Reveals (1 January 2008)
Research Press Releases — 2007
Intergalactic "Shot in the Dark" Shocks Astronomers (18 December 2007)
Biocapture Surfaces Produced for Study of Brain Chemistry (13 December 2007)
Probing Question: Are Asteroids a Threat to Earth? (12 November 2007)
Discovery Links Highest-Energy Cosmic Rays with Violent Black Holes (8 November 2007)
To Fight Disease, Animals, Like Plants, Can Tolerate Parasites (6 November 2007)
Flying Lemurs are the Closest Relatives of Primates (1 November 2007)
Why Do So Many Species Live in Tropical Forests and Coral Reefs? (31 October 2007)
Penn State Profiles: Reka Albert, Model Researcher (25 October 2007)
New Software Advances Photo Search and Management in Online Systems (17 October 2007)
Probing Question: How Do Songbirds Learn to Sing? (5 October 2007)
Probing Question: What is a neutrino? (5 October 2007)
Hair Untangles Woolly Mammoth Puzzle (27 September 2007)
Bee Researchers Close in on Colony Collapse Disorder (6 September 2007)
Discovery May Help Defang Viruses (27 August 2007)
Possible Closest Neutron Star to Earth Found (20 August 2007)
Dominant Cholesterol-Metabolism Ideas Challenged by New Research (8 August 2007)
Planet Orbiting a Giant Red Star Discovered with Hobby-Eberly Telescope (2 August 2007)
Probing Question: Why Does the Earth Rotate (30 July 2007)
Surprising New Species of Light-Harvesting Bacterium Discovered in Yellowstone (26 July 2007)
What Happened Before the Big Bang? (1 July 2007)
Reconstructing the Biology of Extinct Species: A New Approach (18 June 2007)
Caribbean Frogs Started with a Single, Ancient Voyage on a Raft from South America (6 June 2007)
How to Rip and Tear a Fluid (1 June 2007)
Probing Question: Are there Upper and Lower Limits to Temperature? (4 June 2007)
Gamma-Ray Bursts Active Longer than Previously Thought (23 May 2007)
Analysis of Rhesus Monkey Genome Uncovers Differences with Humans, Chimps (18 April 2007)
New Method to Directly Probe the Quantum Collisions of Individual Atoms (18 April 2007)
Probing Question: What do Sunspots Have to do With GPS Reception? (16 April 2007)
Scientists Discover Structure of Gateways to Gene Control (23 March 2007)
Gamma-Ray Birth Cries Suggest Massive Magnetic Engines (8 March 2007)
Discovery Reveals that Distant Quasars Live in Massive Dark-Matter Halos (22 February 2007)
High Quality Helium Crystals Show Supersolid Behavior (21 February 2007)
New Protein Super-Family Discovered with Functions Critical for Animal Life (13 February 2007)
Microprinting Technique for Patterning Single Molecules (31 January 2007)
Top High-Energy Astronomy Prize Awarded (16 January 2007)
Seven or Eight Dwarf Galaxies Discovered Orbiting the Milky Way (9 January 2007)
Research Press Releases — 2006
Astronomers Discover New Kind of Black-Hole Explosion (20 December 2006)
Taking Nanolithography Beyond Semiconductors (14 December 2006)
New Technique Studies How Plastic Solar Cells
Turn Sunlight into Electricity
(11 December 2006)
Penn State Global-Warming Research Cited as Highly Influential Worldwide
(11 December 2006)
Probing Question: Why Did Pluto Get Demoted?
(11 December 2006)
Research Yields New Insights into the Cause of Diabetes (5 December 2006)
Dragonfly's Metabolic Disease Provides Clues about Human Obesity (20 November 2006)
Twin Star Explosions Fascinate Astronomers (20 November 2006)
Viral Marker of Human Migration Suspect (24 October 2006)
Ultraviolet Light Reveals Secrets of Nanoscale Electronic Materials (23 October 2006)
Probing Question: Why Do I Have to Get a Flu Shot Every Year? (16 October 2006)
Better Way Found to Locate DNA Packing Proteins in Genome (11 October 2006)
Astronomers See Inside a Quasar for the First Time (5 October 2006)
Scientists Snap First Images of Brown Dwarf in Planetary System
(18 September 2006)
Earth-Like Planets May Be Common
in Known Planetary Systems (8 September 2006)
Planet or a Failed Star? . . . Discovery Reveals One of the Smallest Stellar Companions Ever Seen (7 September 2006)
South African Clone of Penn State Telescope Makes First Scientific Discovery (18 August 2006)
Research Paper Illuminates How Light Pushes Atoms (8 August 2006)
Probing Question: What happened before the Big Bang? (31 July 2006)
New Method for Dating Art Prints and Early Books Borrows Know-How from Genetic Science (20 June 2006)
Giant Deep-Sea Tubeworm's Meal Ticket Comes in as a Skin Infection (19 May 2006)
How Big is Big? Probing the Conditions
of the Universe on the Largest Scales (16 May 2006)
X-rays Fly as Cracking Comet Streaks Across the Sky (15 May 2006)
Methane-Belching Bugs Inspire a New Theory of the Origin of Life on Earth (12 May 2006)
Penn State Researchers Look Beyond the Birth of the Universe (12 May 2006)
Massive Duplication of Genes May Solve Darwin's "Abominable Mystery" about Flowering Plants (10 May 2006)
Two Milky Way Companion Galaxies Discovered (8 May 2006)
Penn State Joins New Survey to Monitor the Sky (17 April 2006)
Gases in One Dimension -- Not Your Typical Desk Toy (12 April 2006)
New Tools Developed for Studying Neurodegenerative Brain Disorders (21 March 2006)
Probing Question: Can anything travel faster than the speed of light? (20 March 2006)
New Process Builds Electronic Function into Optical Fiber (16 March 2006)
Explorations: South Pole Diary (13 March 2006)
Scientists Piece Together the Most Distant Cosmic Explosion (7 March 2006)
Swift Satellite Detects Unusual Cosmic Explosion (24 February 2006)
Undersea Microbes Active but Living on the Slow Side (23 February 2006)
Shining a Light on Deep-Sea Vents: Science Meets Policy
InterRidge to Unveil Responsible Research Statement at Upcoming AAAS Session(19 February 2006)
Deep X-ray Surveys Reveal Black Hole Population, Glimpse at the Universe (17 February 2006)
Planet Discovered by a New Detection Technique(26 January 2006)
New Method Developed for Exploring Frustrated Systems in Nature (18 January 2006)
Supernova Survey Explodes with New Findings (12 January 2006)
Cosmic Jet Looks Like Giant Tornado in Space (12 January 2006)
Huge Star Cluster Discovered in Neighborhood of Milky Way (11 January 2006)
Unified Physics Theory Explains Running, Flying, Swimming (6 January 2006)
Research Press Releases — 2005
Scientists Sequence DNA of Woolly Mammoth (19 December 2005)
Scientists Narrow the Time Limits for the Human and Chimpanzee Split (19 December 2005)
Cosmic Explosion Could Be Black Hole Swallowing Neutron Star (12 December 2005)
A First: Hydrogen Atoms Manipulated Below the Surface of a Palladium Crystal (2 December 2005)
Scientists Find Possible Birth of Tiniest Known Solar System (29 November 2005)
Genealogy of Scaly Reptiles Rewritten by New Research (22 November 2005)
Scientists Discover How to Flip a Molecular Switch (17 November 2005)
Swift Satellite Hailed as "Best of What's New" in Popular Science (8 November 2005)
Probing Question: How Did the Snake Lose Its Legs? (7 November 2005)
New Sculpture Looks Beyond Three Dimensions (13 October 2005)
Short Flash from Enormous Explosion Solves Cosmic Mystery (5 October 2005)
Probing Question: What is Antimatter and Why Does It Matter? (19 September 2005)
NASA Satellite, Controlled by Penn State, Detects Most Distant Explosion (12 September 2005)
Probing Question: How Long Can Humans Live? (5 September 2005)
South African Telescope, Patterned After Hobby-Eberly Telescope, Sees First Light (1 September 2005)
Bright Young Stars Mix it Up: Chandra Image Released by Team Led by Penn State Researcher (31 August 2005)
NASA'S Swift Satellite Finds Newborn Black Holes (18 August 2005)
New Microprinting Technique Improves Nanoscale Fabrication (18 August 2005)
Novel Technique Offers New Look at Ancient Diets (3 August 2005)
Brain Scientists Offer Insight Into Vision (21 July 2005)
Probing Question: Is Ours the Only Universe? (19 July 2005)
Scientists Use X-rays to Measure How Deep "Deep Impact" Was (8 July 2005)
NASA Swift Satellite Offers a Different View of the Great Comet Collision (4 July 2005)
New Material Could Improve Fabrication of Nanoscale Components (22 June 2005)
Exercise Helps Recovery from Chemotherapy for Breast Cancer (10 June 2005)
Probing
Question: What is a Supersolid? (11
May 2005)
Scientists Watch Black
Hole Born in Split-Second Light Flash (11
May 2005)
Planetary
Protection: X-Ray Super-Flares Aid Formation of "Solar
Systems" (10
May 2005)
Venture Deep Ocean:
The Expedition Continues (6 April
2005)
Sky Survey
Detects Cosmic Magnification (26
April 2005)
Discovery of
Growth-Spurt Era for Black Holes and Galaxies (6
April 2005)
Swift Mission
Nabs Its First Distance Measurement to Star Explosion (5
April 2005)
Probing
Question: What is Dark Energy and How Do We Know It Exists? (24
March 2005)
New Tumor-Suppressor Gene Discovered (10
March 2005)
Probing Question: Are Genetically Modified Foods Safe to Eat? (24 February 2005)
The Secret to Longevity
in Tubeworms (21 February 2005)
Ultra-Cold
Temperature Physics Opens Way to Understanding and Applications (20
February 2005)
Scientists
Discover How Climate Change Causes the Simultaneous Boom or
Bust of Multiple Populations (17
February 2005)
Novel Sulfide-Binding
Mechanism Found in Deep-Sea Tubeworms (15
February 2005)
Probing Question: What is Junk DNA, and What is It Worth? (24 February 2005)
Scientists Announce Smallest
Extra-Solar Planet Yet Discovered and Find Outer Limits of
the Pulsar Planetary System (7
February 2005)
Swift Sees
Pinwheel Galaxy, Satellite Fully Operational (1
February 2005)
Swift Mission
Images the Birth of a Black Hole (21
January 2005)
Clusters of Aluminum
Atoms Found to Have Properties of Other Elements Reveal a New
Form of Chemistry (13 January
2005)
Spying
on Black-Hole Eating Habits with LISA (13
January 2005)
First
Search in Stellar Graveyard Yields Two Possible Planets (10
January 2005)
NASA
Swift Mission Turns On, Sees a Blast Of Bursts (5
January 2005)
Swift X-ray
Telescope Sees Its First Light and Captures Its First Gamma-Ray-Burst
Afterglow (5 January 2005)
Research Press Releases — 2004
Molecular Chains Line
Up to Form Protopolymer (7 December 2004)
Swift Launched Successfuly
on Saturday, 20 November (20 November 2004)
Experiment Confirms Existence
of New Electronic State in Superconductors (11
November 2004)
Mysterious
Cluster of Stars Discovered Near Milky Way (21
October 2004)
Control of Molecular
Switches Increased by Tailored Molecular Interactions (29
September 2004)
South Pacific Odyssey
Begins: Deep-Sea Research in the Lau Basin (23
September 2004)
Vulnerability of Power
Grid Centers on Key Junctions (2 September
2004)
Strong New Evidence of
Discovery of a New, Supersolid, Phase of Matter (2
September 2004)
Physics Gravity
Model Applicable to Disease Spread (6
August 2004)
NASA Space Observatory
Prepares for Launch; Penn State Prepares to Control Its Operation (2
August 2004)
Sloan Digital Sky
Survey Supports Dark Energy as the Primary Constituent of the
Universe (21 July 2004)
Research Reveals Role
of Gene in Infertility (21 July 2004)
Chandra Looks Over a
Cosmic Four-Leaf Clover (6 July 2004)
Imaging Achievement Reveals "Intelligent
Cell" (2 July 2004)
Small, Cold, and Hungry:
Ultra-Small Microbes from a 120,000-Year-Old Greenland-Glacier
Ice Sample (26 May 2004)
Making Black Holes
Go 'Round on the Computer (24 May 2004)
Genetic Barrier to Self-Pollination
Identified (17 May 2004)
Penn
State Researchers and Graduate Students Featured on Space.com (11
May 2004)
First Step Made
Toward Comprehensive Use of Human Genome for Fighting Human Diseases (19
April 2004)
Hobby-Eberly Telescope Witnesses
Vaporizing of a Cometlike Body by a Very Young Hot Star (16
April 2004)
Titan, a Moon of Saturn,
Casts Revealing Shadow (5 April 2004)
Research Reveals Halogen
Characteristics of Cluster of Metal Atoms (1
April 2004)
Team Including Penn
State Researchers Announces Completed Gene Sequencing of Laboratory
Rat (31 March 2004)
Discoveries Reveal That
Gene Regulation Is Bipolar (4 March 2004)
Computer Method
Identifies Potentially Active Enzymes (25 February
2004)
Scientists Discover
Where Snakes Lived When They Evolved into Limbless Creatures (30
January 2004)
Probable Discovery of
a New, Supersolid, Phase of Matter (14
January 2004)
Infant Galaxies Discovered
in Nearby Galaxy Group (8 January 2004)
Research Press Releases — 2003
Mirages in the Sky Probe Dark
Matter in the Universe (17 December 2003)
New Penn State Computer Cluster
Enables Researchers to Probe the Universe (3
December 2003)
What Lies Beneath: Chandra
Image Released by Team Including Penn State Postdoctoral Scholar (18
November 2003)
Most Precise Map
of Matter in the Universe Revealed Today (28
October 2003)
Research on Relative
Species Abundance Provides New Theoretical Foundation for Analyzing
How Ecological Communities Arise (28 August
2003)
Major Flares Are Predictable
on Far-Away Stars, Analysis of Radio Observations Reveals (22
August 2003)
"X-ray Champagne
Flow" Uncorked in Horseshoe Nebula (14
August 2003)
Chandra Finds Rich Oxygen
Supply Inside Glowing Ring (17 July 2003)
Link Between Black
Holes and Galaxies Discovered in Our Own Back Yard (15
July 2003)
Farthest and Oldest
Known Planet Found (11 July 2003)
Firehose-Like Jet Observed
In Action (30 June 2003)
Gamma-Ray-Burst Catcher
Readies for Launch (30 June 2003)
Astronomers "Weigh" Pulsar's
Planets (25 June 2003)
Deep Study Reveals Hundreds
of Objects in the Sky That Emit X-Rays (19
June 2003)
The Secret Lives of
Galaxies Unveiled in Deep Survey (19 June
2003)
Plants and People Share
a Molecular Signaling System, Researchers Discover (5
June
2003)
Chandra Finds Rich Oxygen
Supply Inside Glowing Ring (26 May 2003)
Mouse Research Sheds
New Light on Human Genetic Diseases (23 April
2003)
X-Rays Found from a
Lightweight Brown Dwarf (14 April 2003)
First Science Results
Announced in Quest to Detect Gravitational Waves (6
April 2003)
Sokol Spearheading Portion
of $1.4-Billion Spallation Neutron Source Research Facility (2
April 2003)
Doomed Matter Near
Black Hole Gets Second Lease on Life (25
March 2003)
Researchers Developing "Sentinel
Plants" to Warn of Bioterrorism (5 March
2003)
Potential for Ultrafast
Detonations Revealed by New Computer Simulation (21
February 2003)
Short and Long Gamma-Ray
Bursts Different to the Core (20 February
2003)
National Geographic Magazine
Features Penn State Astronomer Tom Abel on Cover of February
2003 Issue (4 February 2003)
Discovery Science Channel
to Feature Penn State's Deep-Sea Research on 3 and 8 February (31
January 2003)
Three of the Most
Distant Quasars Found at Edge of the Universe (9
January 2003)
Technology Developed at
Penn State Licensed to Pharmaceutical Company (8
January 2003)
Milky Way Monster Stars
in Cosmic Reality Show (6 January 2003)
Research Press Releases — 2002
Team Led by Penn State Astronomer
Records Spectra of Gamma-Ray Burst (12 December
2002)
Discover Magazine Features Penn
State Astronomer on Cover of December Issue (20
November 2002)
Large-Scale Climate Change
Linked to Population Fluctuations in Arctic Mammals (13
November 2002)
New Center for Nanoscale
Science Established at Penn State (14 October
2002)
Research Reveals
How and Acid Dissolves, Molecule by Molecule (3
October 2002)
Revealed Today at NASA:
Space Movie Shows Shocking Secrets of the Crab Pulsar (19
September 2002)
Research Reveals
How Cells Protect Against Stress (14 August
2002)
Consortium for Archaeal
Genomics and Proteomics Established at Penn State (6
August 2002)
New Gene Discovered for
Male Fertility in Plants (31 July 2002)
Scientists Visualize
Waves in Space Caused by Mergers of Black Holes (24
July 2002)
Sequencing of Bacterial
Genome Reveals Distant Evolutionary Link to Plants (9
July 2002)
Deformed Frogs Form
when Parasites and Pesticides Combine (8
July 2002)
Discovery of Three Faint
Companions of Bright Stars (12 June 2002)
Astronomers Use X Rays
to Probe Gravitational Field of a Neutron Star (6
June 2002)
Penn State Astronomer's
Images of the First Stars Featured on Discovery Channel During
June (30 May 2002)
Gene Study Determines
How Humans are Related to Fruit Flies and Nematode Worms (22
April 2002)
Extensive Research Survey
Confirms Life on Earth Now Being Affected by Global Warming (17
April 2002)
Penn State Astronomers
Discover Well-Established Black Holes in Distant Quasars (28
March 2002)
Researcher to Head
New NFCR Center for Metastatic Cancer Research (28
March 2002)
Pennsylvania Weed
Reveals Plant-Pollination Secrets (13 March
2002)
Planets of the Phoenix:
Astronomers Predict Rebirth of Planetary Systems (7
January 2002)
Research Press Releases — 2001
Researchers Trace Dynamics of
Measles Epidemics(13 December 2001)
Fossil Teeth Reveal
Recent Origin of Human Growth Pattern (5
December 2001)
World's Smallest Lizard
Discovered in the Caribbean (3 December 2001)
Penn State a Partner
in New Global Data Grid (26 November 2001)
Deep-Ocean Research
Program Office Funded at Penn State (8 November
2001)
In Powerful Gamma-Ray
Bursts, Neutrinos May Fly Out First, Scientists Say (5
November 2001)
X-ray Emissions Detected
from Elusive Cosmic Objects (18 October 2001)
Penn State and Surromed
Describe Submicrometer-Scale Metallic Barcodes (4
October 2001)
New Center for Gravitational
Wave Physics Established at Penn State (1
October 2001)
Supercomputer Simulations
Reveal Strongest Carbon Nanotubes (19 September
2001)
Young Stars in Orion
May Solve Mystery of Our Solar System (6
September 2001)
Chandra Catches Milky
Way Monster Snacking (5 September 2001)
Scientists Find X-Rays
from Stellar Winds May Play Significant Role in Galactic Evolution (5
September 2001)
Dawning of Light
in the Universe Discovered by Astronomers (16
August 2001)
First Land Plants and
Fungi Changed Earth's Climate, Paving the Way for Explosive Evolution
of Land Animals, New Gene Study Suggests (9
August 2001)
Fish Stocking May
Spread Amphibian Disease (23 July 2001)
Star Clusters Born
in the Wreckage of Cosmic Collisions (20
July 2001)
Study of Aquatic Bird
Genes Reveals Surprising Relationships and Evolutionary History (3
July 2001)
Penn State Researchers
Collaborate on Work Designed to Control Spin of Electrons (28
June 2001)
Researchers Identify
Protein Important for Beginning Gene-Activation Process (21
June 2001)
Research Reveals Potential
of Single Molecules to Function as Switches (21
June 2001)
Biologists Discover
Protein's Impact on Plant-Water Balance (14
June 2001)
Researchers Collaborate
on Findings That Make Way for New Technology of "Spintronics" (13
June 2001)
Discovery Announced
of Two Most Distant Objects (5 June 2001)
X-ray Images of Quasars
Confirm Results of Penn State Graduate Student (29
May 2001)
Key Step in Gene Activation
Discovered (16 May 2001)
Astronomers Use Chandra
Images to Craft Unprecedented Detail of Nearby Galaxy (14
May 2001)
Chandra Examines Black
Holes Large and Small in Nearby Galaxy (14
May 2001)
Amphibian Mortality
Linked to Global Climate Change (4 April
2001)
Streaming Video Makes
Physics Class, Lectures a Round-the-Clock Resource for Students (27
March 2001)
Penn State Graduate
Student Featured Today at NASA Televised Press Conference (13
March 2001)
Scientists Create "Molecular
Rulers" Enabling Precise Construction of Nanoscale Structures (8
February 2001)
Scientists Discover Supernova
May Control Activity in the Center of Our Galaxy (10
January 2001)
Sloan Foundation Grant
Supports Master's Degree Programs for Scientists at Penn State (10
January 2001)
Simultaneous Stellar
Explosions Create Swiss-Cheese Structure in Distant Galaxy (8
January 2001)
Penn State Astronomer
Contributes to Space.com's Effort to Define Weirdest Things in
Space (5 January 2001)
Research Press Releases — 2000
Researchers Craft Model that Provides
Reasons for Climate Change Observations (19
December 2000)
Genes Reveal New
Clues about the First Flower (15 December
2000)
Researchers Discover
New Mechanism of Drug That Alters Genetic Makeup of Viruses (5
December 2000)
X-rays from the Most
Distant Quasar Captured with the XMM-Newton Satellite (1
December 2000)
Biologist plumbs
ocean depths in quest for new forms of life (20
November 2000)
Penn State Biologist
to Study Effects of Urbanization on Outbreaks of Parasitic Diseases (10
November 2000)
Peterson Earns Award
to Study Protein Interactions Related to Breast Cancer (10
November 2000)
X-ray Snapshots Capture
the First Cries of Baby Stars (9 November
2000)
Chandra Discovers the
X-ray Signature of a Powerful Wind from a Galactic Microquasar (8
November 2000)
Flickering Quasar
Helps Chandra Measure the Expansion Rate of the Universe (6
November 2000)
Launch of "Ask Prof.
Science" Web site Finds Success with Steady Response (10
Oct 2000)
High-School Teacher
and Student Spark Study That Leads to Scientific Publication (9
October 2000)
NSF Funding Creates Interdisciplinary
Research Center at Penn State (12
September 2000)
Calculation Provides Insight
Into Quantum Superconductivity of Bizarre Particles (23
August 2000)
Why Proteins Spiral (19
July 2000)
Breast-Cancer Research
Program Seeks Volunteers for Exercise Regime (6
July 2000)
Chandra Reveals a
Compact Nebula Created by a Shooting Neutron Star (6
June 2000)
Galaxies Producing
Submillimeter Radiation are Massive Star-Birth Sites in the Early
Universe (17 May 2000)
Chandra Uses X-Rays
to Gauge the Wind Near a Supermassive Black Hole (17
May 2000)
Brown Dwarf "Missing
Link" Discovered (12 May 2000)
Chandra Images a Young
Supernova Blast Wave (11 May 2000)
Study Finds Some Ecological
Improvement at Penn State (19 April 2000)
Study Finds Some Ecological Improvement at Penn State (19
April 2000)
Astronomers Find
Most Distant Object Ever Observed (12 April
2000)
Tube Worms in Deep Sea
Discovered to Have Record Long Life Spans (2
Feb. 2000)
Chandra Finds X-ray
Star Bonanza in the Orion Nebula (14 Jan.
2000)
Chandra Images the
Seething Cauldron of a Starburst Galaxy (14
Jan.2000)
Chandra Discovers
X-ray Source at the Center of Our Galaxy (14
Jan. 2000)
Biological Reason Found
for Women's Increased Risk of Smoking-Related Lung Cancer (4
Jan. 2000)
Research Press Releases — 1999
Hobby-Eberly Telescope
Enters Early Operations Phase, Shows Promise of Research to Come (11-23-99)
Penn State Research Team Wins Satellite
Competition (10-15-99)
Chandra Images Provide
New Vision of Cosmic Explosions (9-20-99)
Updates from the
Deep: Charles Fisher and Katie O'Toole from the Juan de Fuca
Ridge (9-5-99)
Gene Study Shows Whales
Are Kin to Hippos (9-3-99)
NASA Unveils X-Ray Images
from Chandra (8-26-99)
News Updates from
Gordon Garmire, principal investigator for the Chandra ACIS X-ray
Camera (8-20-99)
Chandra X-Ray Camera
Turned On: A Report from Professor Gordon Garmire (7-27-99)
Powerful X-Ray Camera Ready for
Launch on NASA's Chandra Observatory (7-13-99)
Happy, Sleepy, Grumpy...
Methane? Sky Survey Scientists Discover New Celestial Dwarfs (6-8-99)
Unusual Cluster of Young Stars
Discovered over the South Pole (6-1-99)
Deep-Ocean Research Program Looking
for Four Good Pennsylvania Science Teachers (5-27-99)
First Scientific Discovery Made with
Hobby-Eberly Telescope (5-20-99)
Physicists Find Simple
Solution to Great-and-Small Mystery (5-12-99)
Penn State Astronomers Selected
as Finalists to Build $135 Million NASA Satellite (3-23-99)
Porous "Nanobubblepack" Materials
Discovered (2/11/99)
Gene Study Shows Turtles
are Next of Kin to Crocodiles and Alligators (2/11/99)
Penn State Astronomers
Selected as Finalists to Build $135 Million NASA Satellite (1-26-99)
Little-Explored African
Genetic Diversity May Hold Key to Human Origins, Medical Questions (1-22-99)
Large Gene Study Questions
Cambrian Explosion (1-19-99)
Trail of Dying Green
Stars Leads to Millions of Stars Hiding in Galaxy Clusters (1-7-99)
Research Press Releases — 1998
Chemists Discover New
Processes in Fuel-Cleaning Catalysis (12-11-98)
Scientists Discover
Most Distant Known Quasar (12-8-98)
Penn State Gets Grant
for Math Research and Education (10-21-98)
Rain-Forest Ecologist Studies
Ecological Future of Penn State (9-23-98)
Deep-Ocean Research Program
Includes Four Pennsylvania Science Teachers (8-20-98)
Scientists Discover New Players
on the Gene-Activation Team (7-31-98)
Daily
Updates from the REVEL Deep-Ocean Research Expedition (7-28-98
to 8-9-98)
Better Catalysts Could
Bring Fuel Cells Down to Earth (6-11-98)
Hubble Space Telescope
Sees Expanding Nova Shells (6-10-98)
Mosquitoes Take Breeding
with Just a Pinch of Salt (6-3-98)
Tiny Jamaican Tree Crab
Made Big and Fast Evolutionary Leap, Scientists Discover (5-27-98)
New Fossil Discoveries Clinch Ancient
Age of Human Ancestor (5-7-98)
Gene Study Shows Modern
Orders of Mammals Lived Before Extinction of the Dinosaurs (4-29-98)
Quasar Discovered with
X-Rays is Long Ago and Far Away (3-27-98)
Astrostatistics: Reacquainting
Old Friends (2-16-98)
Catalytica Pharmaceuticals
Obtains Exclusive License for Chiral Technology with Penn State (2-11-98)
Research Press Releases — 1997
New Telescope Scheduled for
Dedication (10-2-97)
Penn State Students Build New Telescope's First Scientific
Instrument (9-18-97)
Scientists Discover How Genes Work Together
to Control Neural Development (8-9-97)
Deep-Sea Worms
Discovered Living on Methane Ice in Gulf of Mexico (7-29-97)
Powerful X-Ray Camera Ready to View Universe
in a Different Light (5-28-97)
New Extra-Solar Planet Discovered: Circular Orbit
Suggests It Formed
Like Planets in Our Solar System (4-25-97)
Astrophysicist Finds New Scientific Meaning in Shakespeare's Hamlet (1-13-97)
Research Press Releases — 1996
Fiesta Bowl Rival Schools
On Same Team Off the Field (12-28-96)
First-Light Declared at
Hobby-Eberly Telescope (12-12-96)
Scientists Discover Smallest Frog (11-22-96)
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