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September 2026
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Inouye telescope solar plasma
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Article spotlight: Blum and Choudhuri on magnetohydrodynamics
September 25, 2026
Kitt Peak rocketry program flight 3.20 launch
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The Kitt Peak National Observatory Rocket Program, 1959–1973
September 18, 2026
Sveinn Jóhannesson
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Q&A: Sveinn Jóhannesson and the antebellum "scientific-military state"
September 11, 2026
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New oral histories: Women’s experiences in moving into science
September 4, 2026
Bell Labs in Murray Hill aerial
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AIP History August Update
August 2026
Sally Ride ERA button
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The ERA controversy at the American Astronomical Society
August 28, 2026
Margaret Burbidge, Geoffrey Burbidge, William Fowler, and Fred Hoyle crop
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Scenes from the making of astrophysics, part 2
August 21, 2026
Compound spectroscope crop
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Scenes from the making of astrophysics, part 1
August 14, 2026
GPS time transfer diagram
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Article spotlight: David Kaiser on GPS and general relativity
August 7, 2026
Francis Williams right crop
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AIP History July Update
July 2026
Chandrasekhar and Eddington, sketch
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Q&A: Peter Galison on his film Shattering Stars
July 31, 2026
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Article spotlight: Gabriela Rădulescu on Soviet SETI
July 24, 2026
Battle of Yorktown map detail
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Book spotlight: Sveinn Jóhannesson on the West Point Enlightenment
July 17, 2026
Edinburgh - W Bulach
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Conference spotlight: ESHS/HSS Edinburgh
July 10, 2026
Virginia trimble mid career
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Oral history: Virginia Trimble, astronomer and surveyor of modern astronomy
July 3, 2026
Jansky antenna
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AIP History June 2026 Update
June 2026
Portrait of M.V. Lomonosov (1757)
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Article spotlight: Crease and Shiltsev on Lomonosov’s lab in 18th-century St. Petersburg
June 26, 2026
Faraday and Father Thames Punch cartoon
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An appreciation: Roland Jackson’s Scientific Advice to the Nineteenth-Century British State
June 19, 2026
Albert Heim with relief
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Article spotlight: Andrea Westermann on the glaciological origins of modern tectonics
June 12, 2026
Megan Povey
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Megan Povey—activism, identity, and the physics of food
June 5, 2024
Dava Sobel Trimble lecture photo
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AIP History May Update
May 2026
pulsar planet
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New oral histories: The discovery of the first exoplanets
May 29, 2026
Participants at the 1953 IUPAP International Conference of Theoretical Physics conference in Kyoto
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Article spotlight: Hiroto Kono on the Japanese physics discipline of Busseiron
May 22, 2026
Simon Newcomb crop
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Article spotlight: Vincent Femia on Simon Newcomb, science, and the American nation
May 15, 2026
Alex Wellerstein
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Q&A: Alex Wellerstein on the craft of nuclear history
May 8, 2026
Vera Kistiakowsky at Public Hearing on Nuclear Weapons and Disarmament
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Assessing the status of women in physics in the 1970s
May 1, 2026
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AIP History April Update
April 2026
Paul Dirac and Boris Podolsky
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A look at the (relatively) rapid acceptance of antimatter
April 24, 2026
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