ALT Stanislav Petrov is seated at a table in his home.

ALT At left, a full-scale model of the Molniya-1 satellite hangs from a ceiling in the Tsiolkovsky State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics. The model features a central component from which six rectangular panels extend. At right, a diagram showing the trajectory of the highly eccentric Molniya orbit.

ALT A graph shows successful (green) and failed (black) stellar collapse outcomes across stars with zero-age main-sequence masses from nine9 to 120 times the mass of the sSun. Results are shown for simulations without neutrino flavor conversion and with conversion occurring at three different core densities. The patterns of successful and failed outcomes vary substantially across stellar masses and conversion assumptions. Text at the bottom reads, “Neutrino flavor changes could help determine which stars explode and which collapse into black holes.”

ALT A graph shows successful (green) and failed (black) stellar collapse outcomes across stars with zero-age main-sequence masses from nine to 120 times the mass of the sun. Results are shown for simulations without neutrino flavor conversion and with conversion occurring at three different core densities. The patterns of successful and failed outcomes vary substantially across stellar masses and conversion assumptions.

ALT Two people sitting and talking together, while one has their laptop open on their lap.

ALT Two people are placing pins on a large, colorful map of the world. One person is focusing on a specific area of the map. They are both wearing coats and holding what appear to be travel documents or guides. The setting looks like a public event or a museum.

ALT A group of individuals stand in front of a large map backdrop with the APS logo. The map highlights a welcoming global community of APS members, with the text "Where is your home?" People are engaged in conversation and examining the map, some carrying backpacks.

ALT A series of three side-by-side photos capture Kelvin wave turbulence along an air-water vortex filament. A 40-centimeter-long vortex set against a black backdrop is bounded on the bottom by a red tube and on the top by an immersed gray annulus, where the vortex is forced by gentle random horizontal oscillations — generating interacting Kelvin waves that transport energy along the filament.

ALT A headshot of Amir with greenery in the background.

ALT Amir stands at a blackboard covered with equations.

ALT A teacher works with four children gathered around a model in a classroom.

ALT Diagram showing a spinning black hole (labeled with spin a* and mass MBH) surrounded by a superradiant "SR cloud," emitting concentric wave-like ripples outward in all directions. The black hole sits at position r₀BH from the Galactic Center (marked "GC" with a red X), with its orbital velocity vφBH shown as a blue arrow. A red arrow points from the black hole toward a sun-and-Earth icon labeled with angular velocity ωφ₀. A second blue arrow near the icon shows its velocity relative to the black hole (v₀BH = −vBH₀), illustrating the relative motion used to model the emitted signal.

ALT A government webpage about student visas pulled up on a phone or tablet. The device is sitting on a keyboard that can be seen in the background.

ALT Mass-mass diagram showing constraints on the masses of two neutron stars in a binary system. Three colored regions derived from different relativistic measurements overlap in a small area, indicating that the measurements are consistent with general relativity. A gray region shows masses excluded by the system's mass function.

ALT A tweet from the American Physical Society (@APSphysics) that asks, "Physicists: What's something you’re surprisingly bad at?"

ALT The capitol building in Washington, D.C.

ALT Network diagram showing a chess position as a web of interactions. Black and white pieces are labeled with chess notation and connected by numerous colored lines representing attacks and defenses. The pieces are densely interconnected, with several major pieces and pawns clustered near the center and edges.

ALT A line of ants travels along a narrow branch with green grass in the background.