The Irish mathematician and physicist William Rowan Hamilton, who was born 220 years ago last month, is famous for carving ...
Most earthquake energy turns into heat rather than ground shaking, sometimes hot enough to melt rock in microseconds. MIT’s ...
When you shine a flashlight into a glass of water, the beam bends. That simple observation, familiar since ancient times, ...
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How to Measure Nothing Better
Cold atoms could also potentially measure much lower vacuum pressures than ion gauges can. The current lowest pressure they’ve reliably measured is around 10 -9 Pa, and NIST scientists are working on ...
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