Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign developed an instrument to measure the density of the dust that kicks up when spacecraft thrusters interact with planetary surfaces as it ...

A space instrument built by the University of Colorado Boulder will launch aboard a NASA spacecraft on Sept. 23 to detect and ...

Among the first instruments plastics molders, extruders, and compounders are likely to consider when outfitting a new lab is a melt-flow indexer or “melt indexer.” Known as an extrusion plastometer in ...

Swarm Flyby Gravimetry is a concept to determine the mass of asteroid or comets during flyby using a collection of small, disposable tracking targets called probes. The probes are deployed from a ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The mass of Stein 2051 B, a white dwarf star located about 18 light-years from Earth, has been a ...

From the very first stage of fuel characterization, infrared spectroscopy was extensively applied in fuel analysis. AMETEK Grabner Instruments — an industry trendsetter with its IROX 2000 and MINISCAN ...

Brooks Instrument, a world leader in advanced flow, pressure, and vapor delivery solutions, has made the ISO/IEC 17025 certification, one of the most important metrology and calibration certifications ...

The metric system is on track for a mass makeover. In an effort to provide accurate measurements at all scales, scientists are preparing to redefine four basic units by the end of 2018. The shift will ...

A faint star nearly 2,000 light-years away now has something in common with our sun that no other single star has. An Ohio State University astronomer and his colleagues have directly measured the ...