Measuring the results of scientific research has seen little federal focus until now. Is it possible to create such a system? What would be the inputs, outputs and structure of the system? What ...

Measuring the 'wettability' of graphene and other 2D materials. Microscopic understanding of wettability can be achieved at the molecular level using 'vibrational sum-frequency generation spectroscopy ...

In a new paper for the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, we, alongside colleagues from a diverse range of fields, investigate the prevalence and extent of censorship and self-censorship ...

A 10-year effort to measure gravity, a fundamental force in the universe, has failed to come up with a conclusive answer.

To really understand neutrons, physicists may have to take to space. When outside the confines of an atomic nucleus, a neutron decays into other particles in about 15 minutes on average. But exactly ...

Despite what you may have heard elsewhere, science isn’t just reading [Neil deGrasse Tyson]’s Twitter account or an epistemology predicated on the non-existence of god. No, science requires much more ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American As scientists, we know better than to measure ...

Reports about the worthy contributions of science to national economies pop up regularly all around the world – from the UK to the US and even the developing world. In Australia, the Office of the ...