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  1. STEM News Tip: New Research on the Physics of Viruses
  2. Demonstration Highlight: Laser Waterfall
  3. Celebrating the birthday of Chien-Shiung Wu
  4. Demonstration Highlight: Cosmic Ray Detector
  5. STEM News Tip: Eclipse Season
  6. STEM News Tip: Non-Newtonian Fluids for Cookout Season
  7. Happy Graduation!
  8. Demonstration Highlight: Coănda Effect
  9. STEM News Tip: Raman Spectroscopy for COVID-19 Testing
  10. STEM News Tip: NMAAHC on Experiences of African Americans in STEM
  11. STEM News Tip: Physics Today features classic article on computers in physics education
  12. Demonstration Highlight: Diffusion Distribution Models
  13. STEM News Tip: APS Begins Public Engagement Webinar Series
  14. STEM News Tip: KiNET-X Experiment Launches from Wallops Tonight
  15. Demonstration Highlight: Projectile Motion - Pellet and Falling Target
  16. UMD Physics Summer Programs 2021
  17. STEM News Tip: Prof. Buonanno elected to NAS
  18. Demonstration Highlight: Hill Track
  19. STEM News Tip: Physics Today interviews Shirley Ann Jackson
  20. Demonstration Highlight: Rotating Rings
  21. STEM News Tip: Earth Day 2021
  22. Demonstration Highlight: Tyndall's Experiment
  23. STEM News Tip: Atom interferometry in free fall
  24. Demonstration Highlight: Smoke Vortex
  25. Demonstration Highlight: Eddy Current Pendulum
  26. STEM News Tip: Measuring the gravitational force of tiny masses
  27. Demonstration Highlight: Plane Mirror
  28. STEM News Tip: The Physics of Music Recital Rooms
  29. Demonstration Highlight: Diameter and Circumference
  30. Demonstration Highlight: The Theremin
  31. STEM News Tip: Physics Today on Physicists & Mental Health in the Pandemic
  32. Demonstration Highlight: Centers of Mass
  33. STEM News Tip: Follow Along With Mars In March!
  34. Demonstration Highlight: Visible and Invisible Spectra
  35. Demonstration Highlight: Brass Barbell
  36. STEM News Tip: NASA's Mars 2020 Has Landed!
  37. Profiles in Physics @ UMD: Dr. Kate O'Neill
  38. Demonstration Highlight: Discharging capacitor
  39. STEM News Tip: This Week on Mars
  40. Demonstration Highlight: Simple Harmonic Motion Video
  41. STEM News Tip: Science Policy 2021
  42. Demonstration Highlight: Flame Tube
  43. UMD Research Commons workshops return for 2021
  44. STEM News Tip: TRAPPIST-1 Planets
  45. Demo Highlight: Funnel Cart
  46. STEM News Tip: Space Launch News
  47. STEM News Tip: Comet C/2021 A1 (Leonard)
  48. Demo Highlight: Hydraulic Press
  49. STEM News Tip: NANOGrav and Low-Frequency Gravitational Waves
  50. Demo Highlight: Polarizers and Light Source
  51. STEM News Tip: AIP Oral History Interviews
  52. Demo Highlight: Newton's Cradle
  53. STEM News Tip: Phosphine and Venus Update: The Research Goes On
  54. A Festive Time: Happy Isaac Newton's Birthday
  55. STEM News Tip: Winter Solstice 2020
  56. Demo Highlight: Rolling vs. Sliding
  57. STEM News Tip: Space, Sun, Stones, and Streaming
  58. Demo Highlight: Suspended Slinky
  59. STEM News Tip: Geminids Meteors
  60. STEM News Tip: Physics Today Features Music & Acoustics for International Year of Sound
  61. STEM News Tip: National Math Festival Online
  62. Demo Highlight: Pendulum Length Ratio
  63. STEM News Tip: Arecibo Observatory to be Decomissioned
  64. Demonstration Highlight: Potential Well
  65. STEM News Tip: UMD Data Challenge 2021
  66. STEM News Tip: Space Launch System Tests Resume
  67. STEM News Tip: The Mathematics of a Pandemic
  68. STEM News Tip: Try NASA’s Eyes on for size!
  69. STEM News Tip: AIP Foundation & TEAM-UP Report
  70. Demo Highlight: Free Fall in Vacuum
  71. STEM News Tip: New Comet in the Neighborhood
  72. Demo Highlight: Van de Graaff and Pie Pans
  73. STEM News Tip: Upcoming Virtual Events with UMD Science
  74. Demo Highlight: The Shive Wave Machine with Prof. Peter Shawhan
  75. The Physics of Bats
  76. Demo Highlight: Electromagnet With Bang
  77. STEM News Tip: Webinar Series
  78. STEM News Tip: Sci-Fi Costumes at Air&Space Museum
  79. STEM News Tip: DOE on STEM Careers
  80. Demonstration Highlight: The Egg Crusher
  81. STEM News Tip: Upcoming SPS Virtual Colloquium with Dr. Nicole Gugliucci
  82. STEM News Tip: Physics Comedy at the Maryland STEM Festival
  83. STEM News Tip: Dean Steve Fetter wins APS Leo Szilard Lectureship Award
  84. Demonstration Highlight: Guitar & Oscilloscope
  85. STEM News Tip: 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics Announced
  86. Demo Highlight: Racing Balls 2
  87. STEM News Tip: Maryland STEM Festival 2020
  88. Demonstration Highlight: Fourier Analysis
  89. STEM News Tip: Learning Resources for Nuclear Power
  90. Today in Physics History: Neptune
  91. Highlight: Van de Graaff Generator Animation
  92. STEM News Tip: Exoplanet around a White Dwarf Star
  93. Animation Highlight: Pendulum Waves
  94. STEM News Tip: Quantum Fireside Chat with Nobel Laureate Bill Phillips
  95. Demo Highlight: Laser and Double Slit
  96. STEM News Tip: Phosphine on Venus
  97. STEM News Tip: COVID-19 and the Physics Job Market
  98. Highlight: Radio Waves and Faraday Cage
  99. Remote Teaching Resources
  100. STEM News Tip: New Gravitational Waves Discoveries!
  101. Atwood's Machine: Testing Newton’s Second Law
  102. STEM News Tip: Some new articles in science teaching & information, August 2020
  103. Demonstration Highlight: Masses Dropped and Shot
  104. STEM News Tip: Native American Physics & Astronomy
  105. STEM News Tip: Titan and its Atmosphere on APOD
  106. STEM News Tip: COVID-19 impact on research
  107. The Tablecloth, the Coin, and Other Adventures with Inertia
  108. Quantum Demonstration and Simulation: The Hydrogen Atom
  109. STEM News Tip: New Atmospheric Phenomena Spotted on Venus
  110. STEM News Tip: SPS Virtual Colloquium
  111. Demonstration Highlight: Simple Harmonic Motion & Uniform Circular Motion
  112. STEM News Tip: Meteor Showers and Rain Showers
  113. STEM News Tip: Sonic Tourism
  114. Demonstration Highlight: Electromagnet
  115. STEM News Tip: Mars 2020 launches this week!
  116. STEM News Tip: Nova Reticuli 2020
  117. How many demonstrations?
  118. STEM News Tip: Solar Observer webcast this week!
  119. STEM News Tip: Children Learning About Gears
  120. Space News: The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
  121. Demo Highlight: Vector Addition
  122. Demonstration Highlight: The Pencil and Plywood Experiment
  123. Demo Highlight: The Ripple Tank and a Ripple Tank Simulator
  124. Demo Highlight: The Racing Balls in Slow Motion
  125. Happy birthday, Alexander Müller
  126. New Demonstration: The Paramagnetism of a Dysprosium Pendulum
  127. Welcome to Spring 2020
  128. Light Up the Night: Neon and "Neon" Lights
  129. A Heated Discussion In Class
  130. The Physics Soda Can Returns: Electrostatic Induction
  131. Physics Teatime 3: Do Not Try This At Home
  132. Introducing Our Newest Center of Mass Demonstration
  133. FLIGHT!
  134. Happy Birthday Carl Sagan
  135. Hot Air Balloon
  136. Upcoming Events at UMD Physics!
  137. Welcome to Fall 2019!
  138. Summer Hiatus
  139. Phun with Electrons: Particle or Wave?
  140. Physics Teatime 2: On The Making Of Tea
  141. On the Choosing of Demonstrations
  142. Teatime in Physics
  143. Happy Birthday to Émilie du Châtelet
  144. Seeing Sound: Vibrations on a Plate
  145. Women Nobel Laureates in Physics
  146. Coming Soon: Physics is Phun presents Induction and Deduction
  147. New Portable Ripple Tank
  148. Irene Joliot-Curie
  149. New Demos: Buoyancy and Electromagnetic Forces
  150. Falling into Free Fall
  151. Happy 100th Birthday Katherine Johnson!
  152. Demonstration Orders for the Fall Semester
  153. Welcome!