It’s not easy being a physics undergrad these days. Please help fund the Food for Hungry Physics and Astronomy Students and the AIP-SPS Undergraduate Student Pandemic Assistance Program. While we ...

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Happy 2025 to all of our readers! The end of this month will mark the start of Chinese New Year festivities, ushering in the Year of the Snake. I therefore want to take the opportunity to highlight ...

The Center for History of Physics supports the efforts of the scholarly community to document, investigate, and understand the nature and origin of developments in modern physics and their impact on ...

Dr. John C. Mather is a Senior Astrophysicist in the Observational Cosmology Laboratory at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. His research centers on infrared astronomy and cosmology. As an NRC ...

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Malcolm Beasley is President of the American Physical Society. Beasley received his Bachelor of Engineering Physics from Cornell University in 1962 and his PhD in Physics, also from Cornell, in 1967.

Initial conditions provide the context in which physics happens. Likewise, in Initial Conditions: a Physics History Podcast, we provide the context in which physical discoveries happened. We dive into ...