Jessica Sansarran is a writer at the American Institute of Physics. She received her B.S. in Media Production, Management, and Technology from the University of Florida. Passionate about being a ...

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Paul Brandt once said, “don’t tell me the sky is the limit when there are footprints on the moon,” and I’ve been living by it ever since. Humans have accomplished the extraordinary in space. From ...

Starting as a week-long celebration in 1968 and expanding to last a month in 1988, Hispanic Heritage Month is held every year from September 15 to October 15 to recognize the numerous achievements and ...

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Western astrology divides up the apparent path of the sun through the celestial sphere (the portion of the sky we can see from earth as we travel through space) into 12 evenly divided sections. These ...

For the uninitiated, a tour of NIST - the National Institute of Standards and Technology - might sound like a dull prospect. However, I am happy to declare from experience that despite the ...

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Tuesday, Oct. 3, the Nobel Prize committee announced the 2023 physics prize, recognizing Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz, and Anne L'Huillier "for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses ...

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