In a post-Big Bang world, nature's top quark -- a key component of matter -- is a highly sensitive probe that physicists use to evaluate competing theories about quantum interactions. Now a new ...

Using DNA origami - DNA-based design of precise nanostructures - scientists at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, in collaboration with researchers at University of Oslo, Norway, have been able to ...

An innovative thickness gauge — the portable ThicknessPen from Butler, PA-based Agr Intl. — offers accuracy and versatility for quality-control personnel who measure the thickness of containers and ...

Question: I am not the most accurate with projects. My measurements are often off just enough so things don’t fit. Do you have advice regarding which measurement tools/techniques to use? Answer: If ...

University of Illinois Physics Professor Paul Kwiat and members of his research group have developed a new tool for precision measurement at the nanometer scale in scenarios where background noise and ...

Using DNA origami -- DNA-based design of precise nanostructures -- scientists have been able to demonstrate the most accurate distance between densely packed antigens in order to get the strongest ...