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Throughout his career in software, @nilanjanpc kept his passion for physics and theater. His latest play, Invisible Particles, debuting next year, explores the erased histories of two pioneering women physicists: Austria’s Marietta Blau and India’s Bibha Chowdhuri.

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As longtime science and technology leaders Vint Cerf and France Córdova argue, ongoing dialogue is needed to ensure that the infrastructure supporting science is able to keep up with rapid change in the tools for scientific discovery.

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We made @Jeopardy last night! In the Double Jeopardy round, contestant Frank Merchlewitz picked an $800 clue (a Daily Double!) that mentioned our first issue's iconic cover:

"His porkpie hat was on a 1948 cover of Physics Today & faithfully reproduced decades later on film"

Do you know whose hat it was?

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GPS spoofing, the practice of falsifying location data, is becoming more common and harder to prevent, writes Sarah Wells. Researchers have proposed and tested a new approach that uses messages encoded in quantum states to authenticate an entity’s position.

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Can the US dodge a dystopia in which political appointees micromanage science? Congress has put a hold on a rule proposed by the Office of Management and Budget that would create such a scenario, and now the science community is working for the sweeping rule to either be choked or left to fizzle out.

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The @ScienceAcad_swe announced today that Francis Halzen will receive the 2026 @NobelPrize in Physics “for decisive contributions to @uw_icecube and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin.”

Read the full story by Laura Fattaruso. #physics #NobelPrize

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"This was the kind of adventure where success was not guaranteed and we got lucky," said Francis Halzen after learning that he would receive the 2026 @NobelPrize in Physics for his decisive contributions to @uw_icecube. Here's our story, which will be updated throughout the day. #NobelPrize #physics

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@uw_icecube And earlier this year, Jenessa Duncombe outlined a recent major upgrade to @uw_icecube with the goal of helping it find lower-energy neutrinos closer to home.

“We passed our entrance exam with the successful deployment of the upgrade,” said Halzen.

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Since it came online in 2010, @uw_icecube has been covered extensively in @PhysicsToday. In 2013 it was discussed in relation to the search for hypothetical WIMPs—weakly interacting massive particles.

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@uw_icecube By 2025, as Andrew Grant laid out, @uw_icecube
had helped pave the way for a new generation of neutrino detectors, including KM3NET.

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@uw_icecube By 2025, as Andrew Grant laid out, @uw_icecube had helped pave the way for a new generation of neutrino detectors, including the Cubic Kilometre Neutrino Telescope, or KM3NeT.

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@uw_icecube Steven Blau's July 2018 article detailed how @uw_icecube located an extragalactic source of neutrinos.

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@uw_icecube Lopatka's July 2023 article for @PhysicsToday detailed how data from @uw_icecube helped researchers determine that cosmic rays were the ultimate source of neutrinos in the Milky Way.

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@sciam For more background, read our IceCube feature from 2015, penned by Halzen himself:

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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced that Francis Halzen is to be awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics for decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin.

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In honor of the 250th anniversary of US independence, three @penn_state researchers created an acoustic model of the Liberty Bell. Using a replica housed at @PSBehrend, they found that the bell’s tuning closely approximates that of an ideally tuned bell. #America250 #acoustics

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