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Two images of a live frog levitating above a magnet.
From the vault: The future of the Higgs boson, by Joseph Lykken and Maria Spiropulu, December 2013.
Two women using an interferometer with a spectrum chart on the wall next to them. One is making notes while the other is adjusting the equipment.
Black hole week graphic with text reading: A portrait of the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way by Andrew Grant
Black hole week graphic reading: The theory of black hole formation shares the nobel prize in physics by Heather M. Hill
A graphic for black hole week, overlay text reading Q&A: Rebecca Smethurst, black hole researcher and YouTube star by Hannah H. Means
An illustration of a black hole with text reading: From the vault: January 1971
May cover of magazine, featuring ocean waves fading into mist
An illustration of Earth's layers, with text overlay reading: From the Vault, September 1985
A data visualization of 20 years of Hubble targets
A labeled star field with text overlay reading: From the vault, April 2020, Hubble's 30-year legacy by Nadieh Bremer and Andrew Grant.
An old image with overlay text that reads: From the Vault, May 1949
Photo of novel window shades. Text overlay reads "Responsive window shades inspired by pine cones; photo courtesy of Tiffany Cheng"
From the vault: Boltzmann's Entropy and Time's Arrow by Joel L. Lebowitz from September, 1993
Cover of April magazine
“The emergence of rheology” by Hershel Markovitz from April, 1968.
A video of 6 images of outer space. Some of them have gravitational lenses. They are each displayed for 3 seconds each with the challenge of spotting the lenses in that short amount of time.
Text overlay reading From the vault, July 1961. Optics and information theory by Richard K McDonald
From the vault: “CP symmetry violation” by James W. Cronin and Margaret Stautberg Greenwood from July, 1982
A black and white photo of Vera Rubin measuring spectra
"The status of women in the professions" by Lise Meitner from August 1960
March issue cover, showcasing a gravitational lens and surrounding galaxies.
Text overlay on an image reading From the Vault: "The origin of the Earth" by Thornton Page from October 1948.
Photo with text reading From the vault, January 2017, What it took to be a NASA computer by Melinda S. Baldwin.
Text over an image of women posing for a photo. Text reads: From the vault. May 2019. Celebrating and supporting African American women in physics" by Jami Valentine Miller
A photo of Elmer Samuel Imes with an overlay reading From the vault, October 2018, The life and work of Elmer Samuel Imes, Ronald E. Mickens.
Magazine cover of latest Physics Today issue
Photo with text overlay reading "Stern and Gerlach: How a bad cigar helped reorient atomic physics" by Bretislav Friedrich and Dudley Herschbach from December 2003.
Image with text showing "Carnot's contribution to thermodynamics" by Martin J. Klein, published in August 1974.
Decorative image of photo from old manuscript
A collage of magazine covers
Photo of Chien-Shiung Wu assembling an electro-static generator
Cover of magazine issue, showing Chien-Shiung Wu.