Most earthquake energy turns into heat rather than ground shaking, sometimes hot enough to melt rock in microseconds. MIT’s ...
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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 ...
Researchers at the University of Stuttgart have created an “optical sieve” capable of detecting minute nanoplastic particles. Functioning much like a test strip, this innovation is designed to provide ...
As the name suggests, particle accelerators involve accelerating subatomic particles to incredibly high speeds and smashing ...
As simple as that all may seem, not every manufacturer participates in testing or publishes CADR information, and some provide either a range of scores or a single composite score instead of three ...
Astronomers are using radio pulses from space to find missing baryonic matter and learn about supermassive black holes, ...
If a new proposal by physicists bears out, the recent detection of a record-setting neutrino could be the first evidence of ...
Understanding the Quantum Leap in Speed Quantum Computers Versus Traditional Supercomputers Think about how we usually ...
Why do some elements decay in minutes, while others last billions of years? Certain "magic numbers" of nuclear particles may ...
Caltech scientists have developed an artificial intelligence (AI)–based method that dramatically speeds up calculations of ...