Measuring the results of scientific research has seen little federal focus until now. Is it possible to create such a system? What would be the inputs, outputs and structure of the system? What ...

Measuring the 'wettability' of graphene and other 2D materials. Microscopic understanding of wettability can be achieved at the molecular level using 'vibrational sum-frequency generation spectroscopy ...

To really understand neutrons, physicists may have to take to space. When outside the confines of an atomic nucleus, a neutron decays into other particles in about 15 minutes on average. But exactly ...

A 10-year effort to measure gravity, a fundamental force in the universe, has failed to come up with a conclusive answer.

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American As scientists, we know better than to measure ...

The kilogram, the actual kilogram, sits in a vault in Sèvres, France under numerous bell jars. It is the last SI unit to be defined based on a physical quantity—in this case one kilogram of platinum ...

Despite what you may have heard elsewhere, science isn’t just reading [Neil deGrasse Tyson]’s Twitter account or an epistemology predicated on the non-existence of god. No, science requires much more ...

Where lies the land to which the ship would go? Far, far, ahead is all her seamen know. —Arthur Hugh Clough Astronauts heading for some distant planet may not be quite as ignorant as Clough’s seamen.

Reports about the worthy contributions of science to national economies pop up regularly all around the world – from the UK to the US and even the developing world. In Australia, the Office of the ...