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In 1994, after he had completed his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in physics at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, ...

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This image shows a faint nebula surrounding a star in the northern constellation Cygnus. Created by amateur Peter Goodhew, it ...

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On 1 November 1929, Marie Curie spent her evening at the Plaza Hotel in New York. In her only public appearance in the city, she was scheduled as the guest of honor to address the third annual dinner ...

Richard Fitzgerald joined the staff of Physics Today in 1998 as an associate editor and served as the longtime managing editor before becoming Editor-in-Chief in 2022. He earned his bachelor’s in ...

Selling time on the 4.3-meter telescope at Lowell Observatory is part of the strategy for increasing revenues for the cash-strapped facility. Staff astronomers at Lowell Observatory learned on 9 ...