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Articles by Joanna Behrman

12 gemstones arranged in a grid, some rough hewn, some still in geodes, and some cut and polished

Birthstones According to the History of Science

Eight men and three women sit or stand behind a laboratory table on which is visible drinking cups and beakers with stirers in them. Some laboratory equipment is visible in the background.

A History Mystery: Adventures Identifying People in a Photograph

From left to right, Yakov Zeldovich, Alla Genrikhovna Masevich, and Vera Rubin sit on a couch around a coffee table decked with a china tea set. Zeldovich and Rubin look towards the camera smiling while Masevich opens a bottle of a cold drink.

Tea, Earl Grey, Hot

four portraits in a row of men in wwi uniforms. from left to right is Norman Ricker in a U.S. Army uniform and a broad brimmed hat, Max Born in a German uniform with no hat, Albert Taylor in a U.S. Navy uniform with cap, and Otto Struve in a Russian army uniform and cap holding a sword.

$R. W. Wood in shirt sleeves and a waistcoat and tie with his mosaic replica diffraction grating, circa 1938.$

Pipes, Poems, and Physics

USS Kane

Photos of the Month: The USNS Kane

Harold Urey schoolhouse

POTM: Back to School

Optimism and Other Poems

Meggers with family

Remembering the Trinity Test, Seventy-Five Years Later