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The Black in Physics logo
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  • Event Series Spotlighting Black Physicists
  • Administration Clamps Down on Foreign Skilled Worker Programs
  • Trump Order Takes Aim at Senior Civil Servants
WEEK OF OCT 26, 2020
A composite image of the asteroid Bennu taken by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. 
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  • Asteroid Mission Attempting Sample Collection
  • China Threatens Retaliation for Scientist Arrests
  • DOE Selects Advanced Reactor Demo Projects
WEEK OF OCT 19, 2020
An illustration of plasma wakefield acceleration, in which particles moving through a hot ionized gas create a plasma wake that conveys energy to trailing particles.
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  • SLAC Opens Accelerator Testing Facility
  • Research Groups Protest Diversity Training Restrictions
  • H-1B Requirements Tightened
WEEK OF OCT 12, 2020
The Founders Library Building at Howard University in Washington, D.C. Howard is the host for a newly announced Department of Defense Center of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.
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  • Study on Defense R&D at HBCUs Begins
  • Particle Physics Planning Ramps Up
  • House Relief Bill Includes New Proposal for Research
WEEK OF OCT 05, 2020
The dome of the U.S. Capitol Building
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  • DHS Seeks Visa Length Caps
  • Scientists Petition in ‘Defense of Democracy’
  • FY2021 to Start With Stopgap Budget
WEEK OF SEP 28, 2020
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine
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  • NASA Appeals for Artemis Funds
  • Wildfires Bring Science to Political Fore
  • Scientific Integrity Concerns Flare at CDC and NOAA
WEEK OF SEP 21, 2020
A solar flare imaged by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory on Oct. 2, 2014.
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  • 1000+ Chinese Student, Researcher Visas Cancelled
  • Fringe Climatologist Appointed at NOAA
  • Space Weather Bill Nears Finish Line
WEEK OF SEP 14, 2020
Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) is chairing a hearing this week on progress in vaccine development for COVID-19. 
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  • Budget Stopgap and COVID Top Fall Agenda in DC
  • DOE Contemplates Pilot Fusion Plant
  • ‘White Privilege’ Training Barred at Labs
WEEK OF SEP 07, 2020
An image of Mars captured by the experimental MarCO CubeSat mission
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  • Flagship Quantum & AI Centers Unveiled
  • New Integrity Scandals Hit US COVID-19 Response
  • Mars Exploration Summit Convenes
WEEK OF AUG 31, 2020
A study published last week found that melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet set a new record in 2019 following two years of reduced ice loss linked to anomalously cold summers.
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  • New Meteorological Council Convenes
  • State Department Warns Universities About Links to China
  • Acoustical Society Calls for Sonic Crowd Control Moratorium
WEEK OF AUG 24, 2020
A chain of tropical cyclones imaged in 2019 by a geostationary weather satellite.
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  • NSF Seeks ‘Systems Approach’ to Earth Science
  • Arecibo Telescope Damaged
  • White House Updates R&D Priorities
WEEK OF AUG 17, 2020
The underground tramway connecting the Senate office buildings to the Capitol
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  • Pandemic Relief Talks Stalled
  • Deputy Energy Secretary Confirmed
  • Democrats Propose Clean Energy R&D Ramp Up
WEEK OF AUG 10, 2020