What is the meaning of life? Even the best of us couldn't hope to answer that question in a Universe Today article. But there ...
Most earthquake energy turns into heat rather than ground shaking, sometimes hot enough to melt rock in microseconds. MIT’s ...
A Hiroshima University team has designed a feasible way to detect the Unruh effect, where acceleration turns quantum vacuum ...
In January I wrote a piece titled “ 5 Physics Equations Everyone Should Know .” Lots of you weighed in with your own ...
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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 ...
Believe it or not, the quantum vacuum... isn't completely empty. It has tiny vibrations or “sparks” of energy. If an object ...
Physicists in Australia and Britain have reshaped quantum uncertainty to sidestep the restriction imposed by the famous ...
Optical tweezers, first demonstrated in the 1980s and awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics, use highly focused beams of ...
NASA and SpaceX successfully launched the agency’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) from Florida on Wednesday morning. Joining IMAP on its way to Lagrange Point 1 are two additional ...
Microbumps must meet strict planarity requirements. Any stresses exerted during reflow, for instance, have a tendency to ...
Scientists have created an artificial intelligence tool called SCIGEN that can potentially speed up the hunt for novel ...