From engines to nanochips: Physicists redefine how heat really moves

Heat has always been something we thought we understood. From baking bread to running engines, the idea seemed simple: heat ...

I Simplified My Watch Data to Focus on a Single Metric—and It Led to Better Pacing and a Few PRs. Here’s How.

By simplifying the numbers I tracked midrace, I felt less anxious, more focused, and actually enjoyed running more.
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What Really Happened When the United States Tried to Go Metric

For decades the United States has lived between two systems of measurement. This documentary explores how America nearly ...

The Mystery of How Quasicrystals Form

New studies of the “platypus of materials” help explain how their atoms arrange themselves into orderly, but nonrepeating, ...
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Fault-Tolerant Placement of Phasor Measurement Units and Communication Infrastructure in SDN-Enabled Wide-Area Monitoring Systems

Abstract: Software-defined networking (SDN) separates the control plane from the data plane, features flexible configuration and dynamic programmability, and can enhance the survivability of networks ...

Scientists Found an Entirely New Way to Measure Time

"If you're using a counter, you have to define zero. You start counting at some point," physicist Marta Berholts from the University of Uppsala in Sweden, who led the team, explained to New Scientist ...
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Automated Measurement of Electrogenerated Redox Species Degradation Using Multiplexed Interdigitated Electrode Arrays

Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana─Champaign, Urbana, Illinois61801, United States Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at ...