Some specific measurements have helped scientists & mathematicians make incredible discoveries. Over the years, scientists ...

NASA’s Earth Observing System provides nearly 30 years of continuous, high-quality measurements of Earth’s land, oceans, atmosphere, and ice, supporting climate research and long-term environmental ...

On a cool February morning in 1904, a spark ignited a fire in the heart of downtown Baltimore. Within hours, a raging inferno swept eastward across the harbor district, consuming everything in its ...

Arthur Paul Pedersen, faculty research scientist with the CUNY Remote Sensing Earth Systems (CREST) Institute and doctoral lecturer of computer science at The City College of New York’s Grove School ...

A nanogram (ng) is a unit of mass in the metric system, equal to one billionth (10-9) of a gram (g). The gram is a base unit of mass in the International System of Units (SI), making the nanogram a ...

I was watching Ben Krasnow making iron nitride permanent magnets and was struck by the fact that about half of the video was about making a magnetometer – a device for measuring and characterizing the ...

…would he/she have an answer? Unfortunately, it is unlikely. Yet, each measurement above can make a substantial difference in performance for every swimmer – including the world’s fastest. Combined, ...

Humans live in a universe; that is a fact. Up for debate, though, is whether that universe lives in a sea of other universes—a multiverse. The idea of a multiverse is the subject of much science ...

Edward Vicenzi is a guest researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the Material Measurement Laboratory. Christine France and Thomas Lam do not work for, consult, own shares ...