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