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 ...

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 ...

Since July 2022, a miniature satellite about the size of a shoebox has been orbiting Earth and monitoring how much solar energy reaches the atmosphere. Now, scientists are finalizing their analysis of ...

(THE CONVERSATION) 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 ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Edward Vicenzi, Smithsonian Institution; Christine France, Smithsonian Institution, ...