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#PhysicsToday #Obituary Charlotte Froese Fischer (21 September 1929 – 8 February 2024). The physicist was a pioneer in the field of atomic structure calculations. pubs.aip.org/physicstoday... cc @mujeresconciencia.bsky.social
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November 15, 2024 at 6:23 PM
#PhysicsToday A new way to measure galactic size pubs.aip.org/physicstoday... Tracing the brightness of a galaxy’s gas, rather than of its stars, reveals a boundary between the galaxy and intergalactic space.
November 15, 2024 at 6:13 PM
Women in Quantum History #PhysicsSky 🧪
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July 8, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Scientist knew CO2 warms the atmosphere since 1859 as J.Tyndall experimentally demonstrated…or did he? Fact is 3yr earlier a #women in #STEM published her results w same findings, her name was Eunice Newton Foote & this is her nearly forgotten discovery: 🧪#AcademicSky 🎢
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March 12, 2024 at 8:07 PM
Everything old is new again.

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January 23, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Physics, astronomy graduate admissions in the US expected to shrink amid funding uncertainty pubs.aip.org/physicstoday...
May 1, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Our December issue is here! Learn about Chien-Shiung Wu’s groundbreaking particle-physics experiments, the science behind this year’s Nobel Prizes, and mysterious structures deep within Earth’s mantle.
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December 2, 2024 at 2:32 PM
Look at these beautiful zinc snowflakes! ❄️ 🎢 🧪 ⚛️ 🐡
December 21, 2023 at 6:38 PM
einstein left and made the a bomb for the americans!!!!!! franck and schrödinger left too!! what the hell are you talking about
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The scientific exodus from Nazi Germany
Beginning in 1933, hundreds of physicists and other academics fled the country, transforming their lives and the global scientific landscape.
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February 11, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Solar panels over canals seems like a win-win. pubs.aip.org/physicstoday...
Solar panels over canals could provide benefits beyond energy
Two projects in the western US are testing the feasibility of installing solar farms over sun-drenched irrigation canals.
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August 4, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Conclusion of a paper on Time Projection Chambers in 1978. 😂⚛️
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January 9, 2025 at 4:51 PM
From radio with love: A Cold War astronomical collaboration pubs.aip.org/physicstoday...
August 26, 2025 at 6:06 PM
A fantastic article about experimental physicist Chien-Shiung Wu and her contributions outside of the Manhattan Project. ⚛️ 🧪 #scicomm

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Chien-Shiung Wu's trailblazing experiments in particle physics
The Chinese American physicist led groundbreaking experiments that demonstrated parity violation and photon entanglement. Many in the physics community say Wu d
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February 22, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Our March issue is here! Learn about gravitational lenses, the changing length of the day, and ballistic cucumber seeds.
📸: Image from ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, processing by J.-C. Cuillandre, G. Anselmi, T. Li.
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March 3, 2025 at 10:07 PM
For #BlackHistoryMonth, let us celebrate the life and accomplishments of engineer and physicist Willie Hobbs Moore, who was the first African American woman in the U.S. to earn a Ph.D. in physics. pubs.aip.org/physicstoday... 🎢🧪⚛️ #WomenInSTEM
February 14, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Learn about the highest-energy neutrino ever detected, collective behaviors in dense crowds of people, and myths that have distorted the history of modern quantum mechanics. Plus, read about jobs in quantum industries that don’t require quantum skills.
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April 1, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Ooh, look, I have an article in Physics Today for February! 🔭🧪🎢
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Astronomy data in the classroom
Teachers bring telescope data “down to Earth” to provide students with real-world science experiences.
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February 2, 2024 at 12:23 AM
Nazi Germany had at that point literally forced their best physicists to work at Los Alamos instead of for them.

Some had been exiled for a decade already.

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The scientific exodus from Nazi Germany
Beginning in 1933, hundreds of physicists and other academics fled the country, transforming their lives and the global scientific landscape.
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January 24, 2025 at 9:12 PM
American science's favorite myth, that it's apolitical, is actually CIA propaganda! There's a whole book about it, which I reviewed for @physicstoday.bsky.social back when they still did book reviews! 🧪 #BookSky

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So anyway this prof is susceptible to propaganda lol
May 3, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Our May issue is here! Learn about threats to the dark and quiet sky, seismic data that reveal groundwater health, and the future of ocean sciences in the US. Plus, enjoy a poem about physics!
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⚛️🔭 #PhysicsToday #oceanography #seismology #poetry
May 1, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Have you seen the new image of an Einstein ring taken by the Euclid space telescope? Curious about how astronomers learned to identify gravitational lenses and how they work? Learn more in our recent article on the topic: pubs.aip.org/physicstoday...

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Learning to see gravitational lenses
In the 1970s and 1980s, iconoclastic astronomers used diagrams, computer models, and their own intuition to convince the community that they had observed celestial objects that noticeably bend backgro...
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February 10, 2025 at 2:14 PM
More irreplaceable losses due to indiscriminate cuts. A sledgehammer attack on science: "The databases include historic earthquake recordings, satellite readings of cloud radiative properties, and a tool for studying billion-dollar disasters." pubs.aip.org/physicstoday...
Scientists scramble to save threatened federal research databases
Amid funding and workforce cuts, US physical sciences databases are in jeopardy.
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June 16, 2025 at 2:19 PM