A new satellite could transform how water is studied worldwide. But to help unlock its capabilities, scientists first needed to take critical measurements on a mountaintop. Credit... Supported by By ...

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Weirdly, spaceships have no direct way to gauge their own speed. Luckily, we can use some physics tricks to figure it out.

Two of the forefathers of quantum theory, Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr, had a famous argument over whether light is a wave ...

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A powerful tool for managing your blood pressure is surprisingly simple: a home blood pressure monitor. Checking your numbers regularly at home gives you and your doctor or care team a much clearer ...

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Astronauts need to know their mass while in orbit, but a normal scale would be free-falling around the Earth with them. So how do they measure their mass without gravity? We're conducting a survey of ...

Researchers at Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, have directly tracked “dark points” in light waves, spots where the field amplitude drops to zero, and found that these features exhibit ...

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