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#OTD in 1934, Carl Sagan was born. He chaired the committee that chose the contents of the Voyager Golden Record and had the original idea to use a Voyager camera to image Earth, which led to the Pale Blue Dot. Via NASA: https://go.aps.org/4j3V0rV
Voyager 1's Pale Blue Dot - NASA Science
The Pale Blue Dot is an iconic photograph of Earth taken on Feb. 14, 1990, by NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft.
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#OTD in 1895, Wilhelm Röntgen noticed that when he shielded his tube with heavy black cardboard, a screen nine feet away still glowed. He called the unknown rays "X-rays." Read more from the Nobel Prize: https://go.aps.org/3UI7TPU #PhysicsHistory
Nobel Prize in Physics 1901
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1901 was awarded to Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen "in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by the discovery of the remarkable rays subsequently named after him...
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Marie Curie (1867), Lise Meitner (1878), and C.V. Raman (1888) were all born on Nov. 7. Read about Meitner and Otto Frisch's 1939 paper on nuclear fission in APS News: https://go.aps.org/4z4P0oA #PhysicsHistory
Discovery of Nuclear Fission
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The Southern Taurids peaked around Nov. 5, and the Northern Taurids peak around Nov. 12. Each produces only a handful of meteors per hour, but NASA says an occasional bright fireball can make the wait worthwhile. NASA's November sky guide: https://go.aps.org/4sIlP9g
What's Up: November 2026 Skywatching Tips from NASA - NASA Science
I'm Raquel Villanueva from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and that's What's Up this month.
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By studying a real fish swimming among virtual fish, researchers uncover the rules that a fish follows when schooling. The results suggest that schooling fish focus on a single influential neighbor. Read the story in Physics Magazine: https://go.aps.org/3Uz9hEI
Schooling Fish May Have Just One Influencer
By studying a real fish swimming among virtual fish, researchers uncover the rules that a fish follows when schooling.
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Black holes can merge, but can they split? A study in Physical Review D explores when a black hole could break apart into a "pair of pants" shape, and when it can't. Read the study: https://go.aps.org/4z0rtWy
When black holes admit pair-of-pants topologies
We investigate the conditions under which black hole fragmentation, the splitting of a black hole into two or multiple smaller ones, may occur via an unspecified dynamics, which would have the topolog...
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Two particles, levitated by sound, collide again and again. A study in Physical Review E tracks how electric charge builds up between them, a process called triboelectric charging. Read the study: https://go.aps.org/3UR62IH
Researchers detected the kick from a single gas molecule hitting a laser-levitated nanosphere more than 10 million times its size, a study in Physical Review Letters reports. Read the study: https://go.aps.org/4yXKaKD
Latest science policy news from FYI in APS News: NSF ends FY2026 with more than $1 billion unspent, DHS proposes new fees for the OPT international student work program, and the White House announces $6 billion in science initiatives. https://go.aps.org/4yEvqiV
$1 billion goes unspent at NSF, DHS proposes new fees for international student work program, and more
The American Physical Society is a nonprofit membership organization working to advance physics by fostering a vibrant, inclusive, and global community dedicated to science and society.
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Physicists from every field connect at the APS Global Physics Summit ✨ Abstracts for #APSSummit27 are due today, by 5 p.m. ET. Don't miss this chance to share your research. https://go.aps.org/4roG0Zi
Physicists from every field connect at the APS Global Physics Summit ✨ Abstracts for #APSSummit27 are due today, by 5 p.m. ET. Don't miss this chance to share your research. https://go.aps.org/4roG0Zi
Why is the sun's corona millions of degrees hotter than its surface? A study in Physical Review Letters used powerful lasers to recreate solar nanoflares in the lab and watch them heat plasma. Read the study: https://go.aps.org/3VUfRG5
Black holes can merge, but can they split? A study in Physical Review D explores when a black hole could break apart into a "pair of pants" shape, and when it can't. Read the study: https://go.aps.org/4z0rtWy
Physical Review D
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Do galaxy clusters spin? A study in Physical Review Letters finds evidence that they do, from a faint warm-and-cool pattern their rotating gas leaves in the universe’s oldest light. Read the study: https://go.aps.org/4zmYxbc
When the dense helium cores of two red giants collide, the merger could produce high-energy neutrinos, finds a study in Physical Review D. IceCube could expect about one such neutrino from a single merger up to 180,000 light years away. Read the study: https://go.aps.org/3TQNKXM
A study in Physical Review D re-analyzes different mechanisms for primordial black hole formation under the dark dimension scenario and finds that, if these cosmic objects exist, they would be five dimensional. Read the study: https://go.aps.org/4ikEbto
All physics disciplines connect at #APSSummit27. 🌟 Let your research shine bright on the largest APS stage. Abstracts are due Oct. 22, just one week away. Submit today.
Congratulations again to Francis Halzen, winner of the 2026 @NobelPrize in Physics. Physical Review Letters published two key IceCube Collaboration studies behind this prize. Swipe through 15 years of #NobelPrize-winning research that appeared in PRL.
In Physical Review Accelerators and Beams, researchers induce and measure “beam-beam crabbing,” when one colliding proton beam subtly tilts the other — an important effect for high-luminosity beam control at the Large Hadron Collider. Read the study: https://go.aps.org/4s5qdyQ
First observation in the LHC of beam-beam-induced crabbing
A crabbing orbit is typically produced with crab cavities, but the same effect can arise through other mechanisms, including dispersion near an accelerating RF cavity or beam coupling impedance. We re...
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Winning a @NobelPrize comes with some serious bragging rights — and a $1 million prize. We asked #APSSummit26 attendees what they’d do with it. Drop your answers below. #NobelPrize
🎉 Congrats to our new class of APS Fellows. They’ve been recognized by their peers for exceptional contributions to #research, #education, #leadership, and public #service. Learn more about them: https://go.aps.org/4n2ksOe
Congratulations to Henri B. Kagan and Kensō Soai, the laureates of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry! They are sharing the award equally for their work on designing reactions that selectively form only one enantiomer of a chiral molecule. Read the ACS press release: www.acs.org/pressroom/ne...
Congratulations to Francis Halzen, winner of the 2026 @nobelprize.org in #Physics, for contributions to @icecubeneutrino.bsky.social and the discovery of high-energy cosmic neutrinos. We're proud to have published his winning research in @physrevlett.aps.org. Read it free https://go.aps.org/4AThgg1
American Physical Society congratulates the winner of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics
The APS Medal winner received the prize for his contributions to IceCube, the world’s first gigaton neutrino detector, and the discovery of high-energy cosmic neutrinos.
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From condensed matter to quantum computing, #APSSummit26 attendees shared what physics discipline they think should win a #NobelPrize. What do you hope will take home the top award tomorrow? @nobelprize
One year ago, our members John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John M. Martinis won the 2025 @NobelPrize in #Physics for experiments that revealed quantum tunneling in an electric circuit. The 2026 laureates will be announced next week. Any predictions? #NobelPrize
A new study suggests the gallium anomaly, a neutrino mismatch between experiment and theory, could be solved by more precise calculations of electron-neutrino capture without new physics like sterile neutrinos. Read more in @physrevlett: https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/5pvf-mcr1
Possible Solution to the Gallium Anomaly Moving beyond the Leptonic Wave-Function Factorization
A decades-old neutrino mystery might be solved not by undiscovered physics but by improved calculations.
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Congratulations to the recipients of our fall 2026 prizes and awards in the fields of #FluidDynamics, #NuclearPhysics, and #PlasmaPhysics. 🎉 Check out the winners here: https://go.aps.org/4cWGlwr
Honors and Award Winners
We proudly recognize our most recent prize and award winners. Our recipients represent the dedication, innovation, and determination needed to advance physics to benefit humanity.
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In 1983, a Soviet computer detected a U.S. nuclear missile launch. Officer Stanislav Petrov had minutes to decide whether the warning was real. He trusted his judgment, avoiding a potential nuclear disaster. Learn what caused the false alarm in #APSNews: https://go.aps.org/4dg9hj9 #PhysicsHistory
⭐ What determines whether a dying star explodes or collapses into a black hole? New simulations of 195 stars suggest that neutrino flavor conversion can predict a star’s fate. Read more in Physical Review D: https://go.aps.org/4jcy9Mv
What can “expert eyes” reveal about a physics department? APS Climate Site Visits bring an outside perspective to help departments, labs, and consortia assess their environment, hear feedback, and identify opportunities for positive change. Learn more: https://go.aps.org/4780UCv
