Check out this amazing photograph (taken by our very own Paul Howell, lab instructor extraordinaire). This photo shows the path of electrons in a magnetic field, which part of Lab 6 this year in Physics 1130.
LIGO Wins Nobel Prize in Physics for the Discovery of Gravitational Waves!
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/03/science/nobel-prize-physics.html
(Supermassive Black Hole) (Not Muse’s)
TFW Neil deGrasse Tyson shreds your sexist tweet…
Some photos from the 2017 Eclipse on the Bowdoin quad
The Force Is Stronger in Prof. Cox!
While we hate it when these two fight, we are delighted to know that lightsabers could be real…
Come Aboard – We’re Expecting You!
Watch the Speed of Sound Ripple Through Queen Fans at Live Aid
You guys, today’s the day. I have finally – FINALLY – found a reason to post Queen’s performance at Live Aid on this blog. Thank you, Nerdist, for bringing two of my favorite things together: this performance and physics.
Watch the Speed of Sound Ripple Through Queen Fans at Live Aid
GRAVITATIONAL WAVES CONFIRMED!
The expertise that LIGO scientists (including Bowdoin’s own Alexa Staley) put into this incredible project is rarified and mind-blowing.
Their giddy enthusiasm? Universal. (See what I did there?)
Space-X Lands Rocket… Back on Earth!
Cheaper space exploration? Yes, please…
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/22/science/spacex-rocket-landing.html?_r=0
Hannah Miller ’17 talks greenhouse gasses released from melting polar ice on CBS Evening News
Go, Hannah!