So how do you get an electron to float on top of helium? To find out, Ars spoke with Johannes Pollanen, the chief scientific officer of EeroQ, the company that accomplished the new work. He said that ...
New studies of the “platypus of materials” help explain how their atoms arrange themselves into orderly, but nonrepeating, ...
Researchers from the Freunberger group at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) have unveiled pivotal ...
On Oct. 3, 1950, three Bell Labs scientists received a patent for a "three-electrode circuit element" that would usher in the ...
Our most plausible creature is the large blood-sucking tick. On Earth, the deer tick Ixodes do swell to the size of a walnut ...
Researchers from the Freunberger group at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) have unveiled pivotal ...
In a new study, scientists have shown that chemical receptors that plants use to recognize nitrogen-fixing bacteria have ...
Nicholas Spada is one of the only scientists in the world using a nuclear x-ray process to study deadly nanoparticles in ...
Researchers from the Freunberger group at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) have unveiled pivotal insights into the redox ...
Low nitrogen availability is the number one limitation to plant growth in most ecosystems. Plants in the bean family and other closely related families evolved a symbiotic relationship with bacteria ...
As 240-foot-high power lines are set to rise across Sugarloaf, Pennsylvania, longtime residents are fighting eminent domain ...
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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 ...