Redefining Standards: NIST’s New Approach to Measuring Near-Zero Pressures
Chip manufacturing, gravitational wave detectors, and quantum computers could all benefit from better ways to measure a vacuum. A vacuum chamber is never perfectly empty….
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Rethinking Sound in Space: Physicists Demonstrate How Sound Can Cross the Vacuum
The iconic movie Alien once claimed: “In space, no one can hear you scream.” However, physicists Zhuoran Geng and Ilari Maasilta from the Nanoscience Center…
Tardigrade Eggs Could Potentially Survive the Depths of Space
Tardigrades are microscopic animals, which are among the few lifeforms on Earth capable of surviving the intense radiation, temperature extremes and complete vacuum of outer…
Haemaphysalis Flava Hardy Enough to Survive Vacuum and Electron Beam
Haemaphysalis flava, a kind of tick, was observed under the intense rays of an electron scanning microscope and survived the experience. They may have just…