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Summer 2005, Volume 23 |
On the Cover:
Cliff Pickover, www.pickover.com
An artist's representation of quantum space-time. Time runs vertically. General Relativity provides only the top half of this space-time, which originates in a big-bang, depicted by the red band in the middle. Space-time can be approximated by a continuum only in the green and blue regions. Red zones depict domains where the continuum is torn apart and quantum geometry reigns supreme. Click here to read the full feature story.
Feature Story
Space and Time: Einstein and Beyond
Research Rundown
Strong New Evidence of a New, Supersolid Phase of Matter New Tumor-Suppressor Gene Discovered Control of Molecular Switches Increased by Tailored Molecular Ineractions Experiment Confirms Existence of a New Electronic State in Superconductors Clusters of Aluminum Atoms Found to Have Properties of Other Elements Reveal a New Form of Chemistry Scientists Discover How Climate Change Causes the Simultaneous Boom or Bust of Multiple Populations Molecular Chains Line Up to Form a Protopolymer Mysterious Cluster of Stars Discovered Near Milky Way First Search in Stellar Graveyard Yields Two Possible Planets Physics Gravity Model Applicable to Disease Spread Spying on Black-Hole Eating Habits with LISA Ultra-Cold Temperature Physics Opens Way to Understanding and Applications The Secret to Longevity in Tubeworms Novel Sulfide-Binding Mechanism Found in Deep-Sea Tubeworms Scientists Announce Smallest Extra-Solar Planet Yet Discovered and Find Outer Limits of Pulsar Planetary System X-Ray Super Flares Aid Formation of Planets in Solar Systems Discovery of Growth-Spurt Era for Black Holes and Galaxies Swift X-ray Telescope Sees Its First Light and Captures First Gamma-Ray-Burst Afterglow Swift Mission Images the Birth of a Black Hole Swift Sees Pinwheel Galaxy, Satellite Fully Operational Scientists Watch Birth of Black Hole in Split-Second Light Flash Swift Mission Nabs Its First Distance Measurement to Star Explosion New Hydrothermal Vents Discovered as "South Pacific Odyssey" Research Begins
Faces of Penn State
W. Dale Brownawell Steven M. Weinreb
The Next GenerationElizabeth Chislock, Rebecca Morgan, and Sandy Shu Hui Toh
Honoris Causa
Ashtekar Receives Humboldt Award Grenfell Elected Fellow of Brittish Royal Society Eklund Selected for National Adademy of Sciences Committee Ewing Honored as Fellow of AAAS Lindsay Named Willaman Professor of Statistics Schiffer Elected Fellow of American Physical Society Rao Gives Invited Address and Receives Award at University of Pretoria Mastro Receives Award and Presents Cancer Workshop Ma Earns Faculty Scholar Medal Robinett Receives Leadership Award Meyer Wins Staff Excellence Award Fedorchak Honored for Supporting Diversity
Bryan Grenfell Murali Haran Dezhe Jin Kouacou Konan Christian Malone Ken O'Hara Damla Sentürk Deirdre Shoemaker Aleksandra B. Slavkovic
Alumni Fellow Award Distinguished Service Award Mahles Give $250,000 for Trustee Scholarship C. I. Noll Award Outstanding Science Alumni Awards College Hosts Alumni Fellow Reunion Volunteers Serve Eberly College of Science Gateway Named for Verne Willaman Millennium Society Reception LionLink Matches Alumni and Students Alumni Notes Obituaries
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