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Applied Physicist Arati Prabhakar Confirmed as OSTP Director
On September 22, the US Senate confirmed Arati Prabhakar as director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP).

APS Response to Error in Missile Defense Report
APS is committed to republishing the report as soon as it has been deemed scientifically correct and technically sound.

APS Applauds Passage of CHIPS Act
The American Physical Society (APS) is delighted that Congress has passed the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 (CHIPS+).

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Press Releases

2022 Gallery of Fluid Motion Winners Announced
APS’s Division of Fluid Dynamics has announced the winning videos and posters of the 2022 Gallery of Fluid Motion.

American Physical Society Receives $3 Million to Increase Representation of Women in Undergraduate Physics
Pilot program aims to increase engagement of women from three major school districts into physics bachelor’s programs by five-fold over four years.

Nobel Prize in Physics Recognizes Quantum Science Advances
Three APS members received the physics prize for their groundbreaking experiments with quantum entanglement, the phenomenon sometimes known as “spooky action at a distance.”

MICROSCOPE Mission Presents Most Precise Test of General Relativity’s Weak Equivalence Principle
A team of researchers present the most precise test yet of the Weak Equivalence Principle, a key component of the theory of general relativity.

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Nobel Prize

Nobel Prize-winning Research in Physical Review Letters
The Physical Review journals are home to the most Nobel-winning physics papers in the world.

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