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Spooky Science 2025

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This month, UMD Physics presents our traditional Sppoky Science programs for Halloween on October 24 & 25! Come check out our Physics is Phun show on Friday or Saturday night, and Physics Discovery Day on Saturday morning!

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

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