Hubble constant. The Hubble constant is crucial in understanding the rate of expansion of the universe and, by extension, estimating the universe’s age. This collaborative effort unites various ...

When most people think about water safety, they think about drinking water. That is important, of course. But human exposure ...

On Jan. 31, 1958, Explorer 1 became the first satellite launched by the United States. Its primary science instrument, a ...

Measuring the results of scientific research has seen little federal focus until now. A 2010 administrative memorandum calls on U.S. federal agencies and executive departments to develop tools to ...

Throughout any given year, the National Academies convene hundreds of conferences, workshops, symposia, forums, roundtables, and other gatherings that attract the finest minds in academia and the ...

For the first time ever, scientists have observed in near real time a cloud of air pollution created as a SpaceX rocket ...

Measuring the 'wettability' of graphene and other 2D materials. Microscopic understanding of wettability can be achieved at the molecular level using 'vibrational sum-frequency generation spectroscopy ...

In a new paper for the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, we, alongside colleagues from a diverse range of fields, investigate the prevalence and extent of censorship and self-censorship ...

Jaime Meritt is Chief Product Officer at Verint, overseeing product management for the company's market-leading CX Automation solutions. A recent MIT study found 95% of organizations aren’t reaping a ...

To really understand neutrons, physicists may have to take to space. When outside the confines of an atomic nucleus, a neutron decays into other particles in about 15 minutes on average. But exactly ...