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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 ...
Cold atom experiments are among the most powerful and precise ways of investigating and measuring the universe and exploring ...
A research team led by Academician Zhu Jiaojun from the Institute of Applied Ecology (IAE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences ...
NASA proves laser communication works in space, sending HD video across millions of miles and paving the way for faster data from Mars.
In a recent Nature study, scientists have demonstrated an electrically driven perovskite laser using a dual-cavity design, addressing a challenge that has persisted in the field for over a decade.
Ripples in spacetime now give astronomy a second sense. The network listens to collisions, maps a low-frequency background ...
A team led by Prof. DONG Chunhua from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), in collaboration with Prof. BO Fang's group from Nankai University, has successfully developed a ...
Accessories for OKW’s SOFT-CASE wide-format handheld enclosures now include intermediate rings that create extra space for ...
In this context, one of the earliest mechanical solutions was speed traps. These comprised sensors laid on the road at certain intervals and a timing device to record how long it took for a vehicle to ...
Artificial intelligence-powered large language models (LLM) need to be trained on massive datasets to make accurate ...