Muons might not behave as expected. But scientists can’t agree on what to expect. By taking stock of how the subatomic particles wobble in a magnetic field, physicists have pinned down a property of ...

A new report sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recommends increased investment in America’s fusion diagnostic ...

Jaime Meritt is Chief Product Officer at Verint, overseeing product management for the company's market-leading CX Automation solutions. A recent MIT study found 95% of organizations aren’t reaping a ...

An ultraprecise new measurement has given some weird particle physics theories a black eye. By measuring one of nature’s most fundamental constants more precisely than before, scientists have tested ...

"For asteroids of the size scale relevant to planetary defense (i.e., ∼50-500 m), the mass can only be directly measured ...

Throughout any given year, the National Academies convene hundreds of conferences, workshops, symposia, forums, roundtables, and other gatherings that attract the finest minds in academia and the ...

The Materials Science and Engineering Division is dedicated to the research and development of materials measurement science, standards, technology, and data. It supports the National Institute of ...

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 ...