Want A Portable Geiger Counter For At-Home Experiments?
A friend of mine recently purchased the SOEKS Quantum Professional Geiger Counter Radiation Detector for a series of at-home experiments...
NASA Internships, Scholarships, and Fellowships
Is astrophysics written in the stars for your future? Do you find yourself pondering how we might deflect an astroid collision or fuel...
Total Solar Eclipse Viewed From An Airplane
From meteorologist Anthony Watts' blog: Two amazing videos of the recent total solar eclipse as seen from an airplane flying over the...
More Upcoming SPS Awards!
I was recently informed about two additional awards presented by the Society of Physics students with fast approaching deadlines! The...
Present Your Research & Make Regional Contacts At The 2015 Zone 5 Meeting
Zone 5 SPS Meeting, Wake Forest University - Winston-Salem, NC I'd like to invite everyone to join other dedicated physics undergraduates...
Making Super-Hydrophobic Materials Using LASERs
Research scientists at the University of Rochester in New York have created super-hydrophobic materials using lasers. Lasers?! That's...
Current Issue of AIP's "The Vector" News Letter is an Undergraduate Research Special
Just in case some of you do not currently get The Vector electronic news letter from AIP, I thought I would include this issue on the...
Ever Wonder What Causes That 'First Rain Smell'?
Originally characterized by Australian scientists, petrichor, or the pleasant "first rain smell" has been enjoyed by many of us after a...
Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM)
UNC Asheville is making good use of its scanning electron microscope or SEM, from analyzing silver nanowires to aiding in the research of...
TEDTalk by Uri Alon: Why truly innovative science demands a leap into the unknown
Uri Alon, a physics Ph.D. and improv theater enthusiast discusses why it's important to keep research projects fluid and not become...
