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  1. STEM News Tip: Washington Post Summer Skywatching Guide
  2. STEM News Tip: Vera Rubin Observatory First Look
  3. Physics Undergraduate Research Showcase 2025
  4. Physics Graduate Student Symposium 2025
  5. Welcome Spring 2025!
  6. STEM News Tip: Nancy Grace Roman Telescope in the News
  7. Demonstration Highlight: Ring and Disc on Inclined Plane
  8. STEM News Tip: Snow Flakes!
  9. STEM News Tip: Space Missions To Watch In 2025
  10. STEM News Tip: 2024 News in Review
  11. Demonstration Highlight: High & Low Candles in a Cylinder
  12. STEM News Tip: Aurora over Maryland
  13. Physics is Phun September 2024
  14. STEM News Tip: Asteroid Today
  15. Eclipse Time!
  16. STEM News Tip: Partial Solar Eclipse This Weekend
  17. Demonstration Highlight: Inertial Reference Frame
  18. STEM News Tip: Comet C/2023 P1 Nishimura
  19. Welcome to Fall 2023!
  20. STEM News Tip: A Busy Month on the Moon
  21. Maryland Day 2023
  22. Outreach Events in February are Hot and Cold!
  23. Happy Spring 2023!
  24. STEM News Tip: Coming soon to a sky near you! Comet 2022 E23 (ZTF)
  25. PhysCon 2022!
  26. Distinguished Scholar-Teacher, Prof. Michelle Girvan
  27. Welcome to Autumn 2022 at UMD Physics!
  28. Blog Flashback: Birthday of CS Wu
  29. Demo Highlight: Air Table
  30. STEM News Tip: May’s Lunar Eclipse
  31. Demonstration Highlight: Reflecting Telescope Models
  32. STEM News Tip: Prof Sarah Eno elected AAAS Fellow
  33. Demonstration Highlight: Gravitational Lensing Model
  34. STEM News Tip: JWST Deployment
  35. Demonstration Highlight: More Fun with Polarization
  36. Demonstration Highlight: Fourier Synthesizer
  37. STEM News Tip: AIP Marks 90th Anniversary
  38. STEM News Tip: JWST Launch Delayed
  39. Demonstration Highlight: Electromagnetic Can Smasher
  40. Demonstration Highlight: Refraction
  41. STEM News Tip: Three New Articles In Science Education
  42. Demonstration Highlight: The Force on a Current in a Magnetic Field
  43. Demonstration Highlight: The Tesla Coil, Part Two
  44. STEM News Tip: Black In Physics Week 2021
  45. Demonstration Highlight: Tesla Coil, Part 1
  46. Demonstration Highlight: Parallel Plate Capacitor
  47. Demonstration Highlight: Friction on an Inclined Plane
  48. Demonstration Highlight: Rotating Chair and Bicycle Wheel Gyroscope
  49. Demonstration Highlight: Pulleys and Mechanical Advantage
  50. STEM News Tip: Updates on Fall Webinars and Virtual Talks from Scientific Organizations
  51. Demonstration Highlight: Elastic and Inelastic Collisions
  52. Demonstration Highlight: Double Cone
  53. Demonstration Highlight: Focusing Heat
  54. STEM News Tip: Coming events
  55. On the Physics of Work
  56. Demonstration Highlight: Buoyancy
  57. STEM News Tip: Hurricane Ida
  58. Welcome to Fall 2021!
  59. Demonstration Highlight: Rotating Chair and Weights
  60. Demonstration Highlight: Electric Fields
  61. STEM News Tip: Donna Hammer wins Board of Regents Award
  62. Demonstration Highlight: Pendula of Different Masses
  63. STEM News Tip: Keep An Eye Out For Meteors This Month!
  64. Demonstration Highlight: Galileo's Pendulum
  65. STEM News Tip: UMD Tech Spin-Offs Highlighted
  66. STEM News Tip: APS Public Engagement Webinars This Week
  67. Demonstration Highlight: Chaotic Pendula
  68. STEM News Tip: AIP Reports on National Survey of High School Physics
  69. Demonstration Highlight: Charged Balloon
  70. STEM News Tip: AIP Celebrates 90th Anniversary This Month
  71. STEM News Tip: Prof. Alicia Kollár Receives NSF Award
  72. Happy 145th birthday to Harriet Brooks
  73. Demonstration Highlight: Hookes Law and SHM
  74. STEM News Tip: NASA STEM Stars Program
  75. STEM News Tip: Scientific American on the Future of Particle Physics
  76. Demonstration Highlight: Astro Blaster
  77. STEM News Tip: AIP TEAM-UP Webinar With Dr. Jami V Miller & Prof Kelly Nash
  78. Demonstrations Highlight: Lenz's Law
  79. STEM News Tip: NASA EPDC Outreach Programs
  80. STEM News Tip: Earth Observation Hackathon
  81. Profiles in Physics @ UMD: Prof. Manuel Franco Sevilla
  82. Demonstration Highlight: Inertia of a Lead Brick
  83. STEM News Tip: #BlackInAstro Week 2021
  84. STEM News Tip: New Research on the Physics of Viruses
  85. Demonstration Highlight: Laser Waterfall
  86. Celebrating the birthday of Chien-Shiung Wu
  87. Demonstration Highlight: Cosmic Ray Detector
  88. STEM News Tip: Eclipse Season
  89. STEM News Tip: Non-Newtonian Fluids for Cookout Season
  90. Happy Graduation!
  91. Demonstration Highlight: Coănda Effect
  92. STEM News Tip: Raman Spectroscopy for COVID-19 Testing
  93. STEM News Tip: NMAAHC on Experiences of African Americans in STEM
  94. STEM News Tip: Physics Today features classic article on computers in physics education
  95. Demonstration Highlight: Diffusion Distribution Models
  96. STEM News Tip: APS Begins Public Engagement Webinar Series
  97. STEM News Tip: KiNET-X Experiment Launches from Wallops Tonight
  98. Demonstration Highlight: Projectile Motion - Pellet and Falling Target
  99. UMD Physics Summer Programs 2021
  100. STEM News Tip: Prof. Buonanno elected to NAS
  101. Demonstration Highlight: Hill Track
  102. STEM News Tip: Physics Today interviews Shirley Ann Jackson
  103. Demonstration Highlight: Rotating Rings
  104. STEM News Tip: Earth Day 2021
  105. Demonstration Highlight: Tyndall's Experiment
  106. STEM News Tip: Atom interferometry in free fall
  107. Demonstration Highlight: Smoke Vortex
  108. Demonstration Highlight: Eddy Current Pendulum
  109. STEM News Tip: Measuring the gravitational force of tiny masses
  110. Demonstration Highlight: Plane Mirror
  111. STEM News Tip: The Physics of Music Recital Rooms
  112. Demonstration Highlight: Diameter and Circumference
  113. Demonstration Highlight: The Theremin
  114. STEM News Tip: Physics Today on Physicists & Mental Health in the Pandemic
  115. Demonstration Highlight: Centers of Mass
  116. STEM News Tip: Follow Along With Mars In March!
  117. Demonstration Highlight: Visible and Invisible Spectra
  118. Demonstration Highlight: Brass Barbell
  119. STEM News Tip: NASA's Mars 2020 Has Landed!
  120. Profiles in Physics @ UMD: Dr. Kate O'Neill
  121. Demonstration Highlight: Discharging capacitor
  122. STEM News Tip: This Week on Mars
  123. Demonstration Highlight: Simple Harmonic Motion Video
  124. STEM News Tip: Science Policy 2021
  125. Demonstration Highlight: Flame Tube
  126. UMD Research Commons workshops return for 2021
  127. STEM News Tip: TRAPPIST-1 Planets
  128. Demo Highlight: Funnel Cart
  129. STEM News Tip: Space Launch News
  130. STEM News Tip: Comet C/2021 A1 (Leonard)
  131. Demo Highlight: Hydraulic Press
  132. STEM News Tip: NANOGrav and Low-Frequency Gravitational Waves
  133. Demo Highlight: Polarizers and Light Source
  134. STEM News Tip: AIP Oral History Interviews
  135. Demo Highlight: Newton's Cradle
  136. STEM News Tip: Phosphine and Venus Update: The Research Goes On
  137. A Festive Time: Happy Isaac Newton's Birthday
  138. STEM News Tip: Winter Solstice 2020
  139. Demo Highlight: Rolling vs. Sliding
  140. STEM News Tip: Space, Sun, Stones, and Streaming
  141. Demo Highlight: Suspended Slinky
  142. STEM News Tip: Geminids Meteors
  143. STEM News Tip: Physics Today Features Music & Acoustics for International Year of Sound
  144. STEM News Tip: National Math Festival Online
  145. Demo Highlight: Pendulum Length Ratio
  146. STEM News Tip: Arecibo Observatory to be Decomissioned
  147. Demonstration Highlight: Potential Well
  148. STEM News Tip: UMD Data Challenge 2021
  149. STEM News Tip: Space Launch System Tests Resume
  150. STEM News Tip: The Mathematics of a Pandemic
  151. STEM News Tip: Try NASA’s Eyes on for size!
  152. STEM News Tip: AIP Foundation & TEAM-UP Report
  153. Demo Highlight: Free Fall in Vacuum
  154. STEM News Tip: New Comet in the Neighborhood
  155. Demo Highlight: Van de Graaff and Pie Pans
  156. STEM News Tip: Upcoming Virtual Events with UMD Science
  157. Demo Highlight: The Shive Wave Machine with Prof. Peter Shawhan
  158. The Physics of Bats
  159. Demo Highlight: Electromagnet With Bang
  160. STEM News Tip: Webinar Series
  161. STEM News Tip: Sci-Fi Costumes at Air&Space Museum
  162. STEM News Tip: DOE on STEM Careers
  163. Demonstration Highlight: The Egg Crusher
  164. STEM News Tip: Upcoming SPS Virtual Colloquium with Dr. Nicole Gugliucci
  165. STEM News Tip: Physics Comedy at the Maryland STEM Festival
  166. STEM News Tip: Dean Steve Fetter wins APS Leo Szilard Lectureship Award
  167. Demonstration Highlight: Guitar & Oscilloscope
  168. STEM News Tip: 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics Announced
  169. Demo Highlight: Racing Balls 2
  170. STEM News Tip: Maryland STEM Festival 2020
  171. Demonstration Highlight: Fourier Analysis
  172. STEM News Tip: Learning Resources for Nuclear Power
  173. Today in Physics History: Neptune
  174. Highlight: Van de Graaff Generator Animation
  175. STEM News Tip: Exoplanet around a White Dwarf Star
  176. Animation Highlight: Pendulum Waves
  177. STEM News Tip: Quantum Fireside Chat with Nobel Laureate Bill Phillips
  178. Demo Highlight: Laser and Double Slit
  179. STEM News Tip: Phosphine on Venus
  180. STEM News Tip: COVID-19 and the Physics Job Market
  181. Highlight: Radio Waves and Faraday Cage
  182. Remote Teaching Resources
  183. STEM News Tip: New Gravitational Waves Discoveries!
  184. Atwood's Machine: Testing Newton’s Second Law
  185. STEM News Tip: Some new articles in science teaching & information, August 2020
  186. Demonstration Highlight: Masses Dropped and Shot
  187. STEM News Tip: Native American Physics & Astronomy
  188. STEM News Tip: Titan and its Atmosphere on APOD
  189. STEM News Tip: COVID-19 impact on research
  190. The Tablecloth, the Coin, and Other Adventures with Inertia
  191. Quantum Demonstration and Simulation: The Hydrogen Atom
  192. STEM News Tip: New Atmospheric Phenomena Spotted on Venus
  193. STEM News Tip: SPS Virtual Colloquium
  194. Demonstration Highlight: Simple Harmonic Motion & Uniform Circular Motion
  195. STEM News Tip: Meteor Showers and Rain Showers
  196. STEM News Tip: Sonic Tourism
  197. Demonstration Highlight: Electromagnet
  198. STEM News Tip: Mars 2020 launches this week!
  199. STEM News Tip: Nova Reticuli 2020
  200. How many demonstrations?
  201. STEM News Tip: Solar Observer webcast this week!
  202. STEM News Tip: Children Learning About Gears
  203. Space News: The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
  204. Demo Highlight: Vector Addition
  205. Demonstration Highlight: The Pencil and Plywood Experiment
  206. Demo Highlight: The Ripple Tank and a Ripple Tank Simulator
  207. Demo Highlight: The Racing Balls in Slow Motion
  208. Happy birthday, Alexander Müller
  209. New Demonstration: The Paramagnetism of a Dysprosium Pendulum
  210. Welcome to Spring 2020
  211. Light Up the Night: Neon and "Neon" Lights
  212. A Heated Discussion In Class
  213. The Physics Soda Can Returns: Electrostatic Induction
  214. Physics Teatime 3: Do Not Try This At Home
  215. Introducing Our Newest Center of Mass Demonstration
  216. FLIGHT!
  217. Happy Birthday Carl Sagan
  218. Hot Air Balloon
  219. Upcoming Events at UMD Physics!
  220. Welcome to Fall 2019!
  221. Summer Hiatus
  222. Phun with Electrons: Particle or Wave?
  223. Physics Teatime 2: On The Making Of Tea
  224. On the Choosing of Demonstrations
  225. Teatime in Physics
  226. Happy Birthday to Émilie du Châtelet
  227. Seeing Sound: Vibrations on a Plate
  228. Women Nobel Laureates in Physics
  229. Coming Soon: Physics is Phun presents Induction and Deduction
  230. New Portable Ripple Tank
  231. Irene Joliot-Curie
  232. New Demos: Buoyancy and Electromagnetic Forces
  233. Falling into Free Fall
  234. Happy 100th Birthday Katherine Johnson!
  235. Demonstration Orders for the Fall Semester
  236. Welcome!