On May 20, 1875, delegates from a group of 17 countries gathered in Paris to sign what may be the most overlooked yet ...

A radical initiative for its time, the Metre Convention ultimately birthed a system of measurement that would transcend language, politics and tradition, and lay the foundation for a new global era of ...

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A mysterious menagerie of quantum states — once purely theoretical — has been brought to life by researchers at Columbia ...

Amazingly, compassion — because it fosters positive feelings — actually attenuates the empathetic distress that can cause ...

Recent observations by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have added new weight to one of the most perplexing problems in ...

Just last summer, Yiping Wang, Max-Planck NYC Center Postdoctoral Fellow ... and then a second detects the change in dielectric constant, a measure of the strength of electrical interactions ...

In quantum mechanics, however, it becomes meaningless to talk about distances smaller than a limit called the Planck length ... that make sense of a world in constant transformation.