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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 ...
“There’s an absolute oversupply of content, on every single platform,” Tokyo-based industry analyst Serkan Toto said. “You ...
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The current methods for attitude determination are Star Trackers, sun sensors, magnetometers, and gyroscopes. We would like ...
Despite extensive use over 40 years, physical activity questionnaires still show limited reliability and validity. Measurements have value in indicating conditions where an increase in physical ...
Tampa Mall stands as Florida’s monument to bargain hunting – a sprawling indoor marketplace where thirty-five dollars stretches like saltwater taffy and shopping carts become treasure chests on wheels ...
Stefan Hutzler and Louise Bradley explain how they turned the famous pitch-drop experiment into an outreach activity ...
DEAR DR. ROACH: A cardiologist recently suggested that I should consider taking a statin because of my “borderline” cholesterol level. So, I took a dive into the details of statin therapy. I learned ...
In January I wrote a piece titled “ 5 Physics Equations Everyone Should Know .” Lots of you weighed in with your own ...
Whether an asteroid is spinning neatly on its axis or tumbling chaotically, and how fast it is doing so, has been shown to be ...
A new class of highly efficient and scalable quantum low-density parity-check error correction codes, capable of performance ...
Japanese scientists develop scalable quantum LDPC error correction codes approaching the theoretical hashing bound.