For decades, bulky spectrometers have been the main tools for understanding how things are made of chemicals (a thing called ...

Smaller version Illustration of a conventional atomic fountain clock (left) next to NPL’s miniature atomic fountain clock.

Researchers at the UK’s National Physical Laboratory (NPL) have created a tiny atomic fountain ...

Nielsen’s pilot program will use the company’s proprietary, wrist-worn wearable measurement devices that capture audio from TV events, shows and movies, creating a more passive process for measurement ...

Machine learning redesigns microscopic web sensors to be five times more flexible than nature-inspired versions, enabling detection of masses as small as trillionths of a gram.

Field-device diagnostics can improve instrument reliability, but diagnostics alone won’t deliver reliability gains ...

At 3:39 p.m. on January 21, 1968, the aircraft slammed into the ice seven miles west of the base. The impact carved a 160-foot gash across the frozen bay. All four thermonuclear weapons detonated ...

Strong winds, heavy precipitation, and cold air outbreaks are high-impact weather events that tend to occur frequently in the ...

Independent watchmaking house Henri Grandjean & Cie presents Magician, its first high-horology collection. More than a debut, ...

Mingrui’s familiarity with different material behaviors — from zirconia and alumina to silicon nitride and other engineered ceramics — allows it to offer cost-effective engineering solutions that ...

Optical photothermal infrared (O-PTIR) spectroscopy is an infrared super-resolution measurement technique where a shorter ...

Investigative reporting suggests that Iran may have used at least one warhead in the attacks that incorporated radiological ...