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APS is bracing for upheaval in U.S. academic programs.

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A short-term Continuing Resolution (CR) has reopened federal science agencies after the government shutdown, but robust and stable science funding is vital to future discovery and workforce development.

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Advocates were cautiously optimistic about new guidance from the Senate appropriations subcommittee.

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Physicists are meeting with U.S. Senate offices to defend federal science funding — and seeing early signs of success.

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The 2025 PhysTEC Teacher of the Year shares her story, strategy, and syllabus with anyone who asks.

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Particle physics used to rely mostly on accelerators and theory. Not anymore.

In this black-and-white photo, a younger Syukuro Manabe sits at a desk and smiles at the camera. His elbows are propped on a stack of papers, and maps and charts are visible on the wall behind him.

Manabe, who won the 2021 Nobel Prize, developed models that forecast the warming effects of greenhouse gases.

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The premier physics research journal, providing rapid publication of short reports of fundamental research across all fields.

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Publishing exceptional research from all areas of pure, applied, and interdisciplinary physics.

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In-depth review articles and shorter colloquia placing fundamental physics literature within the context of current trends and applications.

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