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