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Science is under threat

The presidential budget request is filled with debilitating cuts to science, undermining research and innovation in the U.S. and abroad. Read our response and tell Congress science is worth protecting.

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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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Science drives progress, but only if we keep investing in it.

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The recent spending bill is separate from federal science spending.

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President Trump signed the bill into law on July 4.

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Detection of waves emitted by colliding binary black holes opened a new era in astrophysics and proved that Einstein was right.

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The training teaches physicists how to share their access to knowledge. First, they must learn proper etiquette.

The Physical Review journals — home to highly cited and Nobel prize-winning studies — are integral to the physics community.

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When she had to choose between looking after her baby and furthering her career, Carla Hermann Avigliano decided to advocate for caregiving scientists everywhere.

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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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