The Irish mathematician and physicist William Rowan Hamilton, who was born 220 years ago last month, is famous for carving ...
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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 ...
The precise imaging of many-body systems, which are comprised of many interacting particles, can help to validate theoretical ...
Data may challenge and reshape current models of solar wind evolution. A recent study led by Dr. Michael Starkey of the ...
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Understanding diffraction and dispersion is key to optical science, influencing technologies like spectroscopy, fiber optics, ...