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Marie Tharp

Marie Tharp's Discovery of the Mid Ocean Ridge Rift Valley in 1952

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

Rachel Carson on a beach in Maryland

National History Day Interviews: Debate, Diplomacy, and Climate Change

Book cover images. Graphic credit: Abigail Malate

Indigenous History Month Book Recommendations (& more)

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.

World War I

Cassiopeia - A supernova remnant. Each color reveals a different element created in the explosion: silicon (red), sulfur (yellow), calcium (green), iron (purple). The supernova blast wave is shown in blue. Credit: NASA/CXC/SAO

Supernova: An Interview with Author Or Graur

An image of a green lion devouring the sun, commonly used in alchemical texts.

Initial Conditions Episode 10: The Newton You Didn't Know

Allegheny Observatory

Initial Conditions Episode 9: The Unexpected Hero of Light

Image of James and Katherine Clerk Maxwell with their dog Toby

Research of Underrepresented Voices: Primary Crumbs vs. Secondary Loaves

Einstein and Lorentz

Einstein’s Witches’ Sabbath

Portrait of Sally Ride in orbit.

Pride Month Podcast Recommendations

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

Pipes, Poems, and Physics

The debut album of the Ultraviolet Catastrophe if it was a band name and not a dramatic term for the failure of pre-quantum physics to describe radiation emission and absorption. Greatest hits from the album include: "Why is it Getting Hot in Here?" and "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Mathematical Explanation)."

Quantum Quotes

Cover of the book "America is Immigrants" with a drawing of the Statue of Liberty on it.

Physics is Immigrants

Harvey Fletcher

Women's History Month Podcast Recommendations

Museum Tour

From Foote-Note to Climate Science Founder

BHM 2022 Booklist banner

Black History Month Book Recommendations

The Sammelbands M2

On 57 Diamonds from the Wenner Acquisition

USS Kane

Photos of the Month: The USNS Kane

Grace Hopper

National History Day Interviews: Computing for the Win

Which Physicist are you?

Which Physicist Are You?

Trivia!

Harold Urey schoolhouse

POTM: Back to School

Fred Dylla

Scientific Journeys with Author Fred Dylla

Joseph McKibben

National Parks

Discussing the New Book, The Soul of Genius, with Author Jeffrey Orens

Pride Month Book Recommendations

What’s So Special About Nuclei and Particles

From Artificial Radioactivity to Mainstream Medicine

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