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Open champion in history at 16 years and 9 months, says her physicist father maintained healthy boundaries.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

Dr. Philip Goodwin, climate physicist at the University of Southampton and study co-author, added: "As the ice sheet expanded, its bright surface reflected more sunlight back into space, cooling the region further."

From Science Daily ● Aug. 25, 2026

Donald Trump has always believed himself to be an expert at what he calls “nuclear,” due to the fact that his uncle, John Trump, was a physicist who taught at MIT.

From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026

Shtilierman, an engineer and physicist more comfortable tinkering with prototypes than managing personnel and production chains, had known Terekh for several years and valued her business acumen.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026

The device was not a hydrogen bomb, exactly, but it was “the first thermonuclear test explosion on earth,” in the words of one witness, the young Berkeley physicist Herbert York.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

In 1964, physicists introduced the quark model to organize these bound states.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 2, 2026

That constraint can help physicists design and interpret future experiments.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 2, 2026

For decades, physicists have investigated superconductors—materials capable of carrying electrical current with zero energy loss.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026

Roman will also complete detailed surveys of the sky to help physicists better understand “dark matter,” which pulls the universe together, and “dark energy,” which pushes it apart.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026

Particle physicists look at the subatomic realm with particle accelerators: they use magnetic fields or other means to get tiny particles moving very fast; when these particles collide with one another, they spit off fragments.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife