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  1. Profiles in Physics @ UMD: Dr. Kate O'Neill
  2. Demonstration Highlight: Discharging capacitor
  3. STEM News Tip: This Week on Mars
  4. Demonstration Highlight: Simple Harmonic Motion Video
  5. STEM News Tip: Science Policy 2021
  6. Demonstration Highlight: Flame Tube
  7. UMD Research Commons workshops return for 2021
  8. STEM News Tip: TRAPPIST-1 Planets
  9. Demo Highlight: Funnel Cart
  10. STEM News Tip: Space Launch News
  11. STEM News Tip: Comet C/2021 A1 (Leonard)
  12. Demo Highlight: Hydraulic Press
  13. STEM News Tip: NANOGrav and Low-Frequency Gravitational Waves
  14. Demo Highlight: Polarizers and Light Source
  15. STEM News Tip: AIP Oral History Interviews
  16. Demo Highlight: Newton's Cradle
  17. STEM News Tip: Phosphine and Venus Update: The Research Goes On
  18. A Festive Time: Happy Isaac Newton's Birthday
  19. STEM News Tip: Winter Solstice 2020
  20. Demo Highlight: Rolling vs. Sliding
  21. STEM News Tip: Space, Sun, Stones, and Streaming
  22. Demo Highlight: Suspended Slinky
  23. STEM News Tip: Geminids Meteors
  24. STEM News Tip: Physics Today Features Music & Acoustics for International Year of Sound
  25. STEM News Tip: National Math Festival Online
  26. Demo Highlight: Pendulum Length Ratio
  27. STEM News Tip: Arecibo Observatory to be Decomissioned
  28. Demonstration Highlight: Potential Well
  29. STEM News Tip: UMD Data Challenge 2021
  30. STEM News Tip: Space Launch System Tests Resume
  31. STEM News Tip: The Mathematics of a Pandemic
  32. STEM News Tip: Try NASA’s Eyes on for size!
  33. STEM News Tip: AIP Foundation & TEAM-UP Report
  34. Demo Highlight: Free Fall in Vacuum
  35. STEM News Tip: New Comet in the Neighborhood
  36. Demo Highlight: Van de Graaff and Pie Pans
  37. STEM News Tip: Upcoming Virtual Events with UMD Science
  38. Demo Highlight: The Shive Wave Machine with Prof. Peter Shawhan
  39. The Physics of Bats
  40. Demo Highlight: Electromagnet With Bang
  41. STEM News Tip: Webinar Series
  42. STEM News Tip: Sci-Fi Costumes at Air&Space Museum
  43. STEM News Tip: DOE on STEM Careers
  44. Demonstration Highlight: The Egg Crusher
  45. STEM News Tip: Upcoming SPS Virtual Colloquium with Dr. Nicole Gugliucci
  46. STEM News Tip: Physics Comedy at the Maryland STEM Festival
  47. STEM News Tip: Dean Steve Fetter wins APS Leo Szilard Lectureship Award
  48. Demonstration Highlight: Guitar & Oscilloscope
  49. STEM News Tip: 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics Announced
  50. Demo Highlight: Racing Balls 2
  51. STEM News Tip: Maryland STEM Festival 2020
  52. Demonstration Highlight: Fourier Analysis
  53. STEM News Tip: Learning Resources for Nuclear Power
  54. Today in Physics History: Neptune
  55. Highlight: Van de Graaff Generator Animation
  56. STEM News Tip: Exoplanet around a White Dwarf Star
  57. Animation Highlight: Pendulum Waves
  58. STEM News Tip: Quantum Fireside Chat with Nobel Laureate Bill Phillips
  59. Demo Highlight: Laser and Double Slit
  60. STEM News Tip: Phosphine on Venus
  61. STEM News Tip: COVID-19 and the Physics Job Market
  62. Highlight: Radio Waves and Faraday Cage
  63. Remote Teaching Resources
  64. STEM News Tip: New Gravitational Waves Discoveries!
  65. Atwood's Machine: Testing Newton’s Second Law
  66. STEM News Tip: Some new articles in science teaching & information, August 2020
  67. Demonstration Highlight: Masses Dropped and Shot
  68. STEM News Tip: Native American Physics & Astronomy
  69. STEM News Tip: Titan and its Atmosphere on APOD
  70. STEM News Tip: COVID-19 impact on research
  71. The Tablecloth, the Coin, and Other Adventures with Inertia
  72. Quantum Demonstration and Simulation: The Hydrogen Atom
  73. STEM News Tip: New Atmospheric Phenomena Spotted on Venus
  74. STEM News Tip: SPS Virtual Colloquium
  75. Demonstration Highlight: Simple Harmonic Motion & Uniform Circular Motion
  76. STEM News Tip: Meteor Showers and Rain Showers
  77. STEM News Tip: Sonic Tourism
  78. Demonstration Highlight: Electromagnet
  79. STEM News Tip: Mars 2020 launches this week!
  80. STEM News Tip: Nova Reticuli 2020
  81. How many demonstrations?
  82. STEM News Tip: Solar Observer webcast this week!
  83. STEM News Tip: Children Learning About Gears
  84. Space News: The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
  85. Demo Highlight: Vector Addition
  86. Demonstration Highlight: The Pencil and Plywood Experiment
  87. Demo Highlight: The Ripple Tank and a Ripple Tank Simulator
  88. Demo Highlight: The Racing Balls in Slow Motion
  89. Happy birthday, Alexander Müller
  90. New Demonstration: The Paramagnetism of a Dysprosium Pendulum
  91. Welcome to Spring 2020
  92. Light Up the Night: Neon and "Neon" Lights
  93. A Heated Discussion In Class
  94. The Physics Soda Can Returns: Electrostatic Induction
  95. Physics Teatime 3: Do Not Try This At Home
  96. Introducing Our Newest Center of Mass Demonstration
  97. FLIGHT!
  98. Happy Birthday Carl Sagan
  99. Hot Air Balloon
  100. Upcoming Events at UMD Physics!
  101. Welcome to Fall 2019!
  102. Summer Hiatus
  103. Phun with Electrons: Particle or Wave?
  104. Physics Teatime 2: On The Making Of Tea
  105. On the Choosing of Demonstrations
  106. Teatime in Physics
  107. Happy Birthday to Émilie du Châtelet
  108. Seeing Sound: Vibrations on a Plate
  109. Women Nobel Laureates in Physics
  110. Coming Soon: Physics is Phun presents Induction and Deduction
  111. New Portable Ripple Tank
  112. Irene Joliot-Curie
  113. New Demos: Buoyancy and Electromagnetic Forces
  114. Falling into Free Fall
  115. Happy 100th Birthday Katherine Johnson!
  116. Demonstration Orders for the Fall Semester
  117. Welcome!