Phonons bring good vibrations to quantum physicists. This is an Inside Science story. “I'm picking up good vibrations. She's giving me excitations.” Little did The Beach Boys know their 1966 hit was ...

Electronic devices are usually thought of as securely and safely mounted in a protective enclosure or sitting on a table top, yet portable devices require completely different standards to which ...

Steve Brenner, a consultant who has worked in the field of environmental simulation and reliability testing for more than 35 years, has contributed to reliability and design-verification testing on ...

Explore vibration measurement technologies, their pros and cons, and applications in engineering and industrial testing.

(Nanowerk News) An international research group led by scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology has developed a method for ...

Industries and R&D sites depend on sensors to measure, monitor and analyze vibrations. Unfortunately, the best ways to get accurate and repeatable vibration data are not clear to many engineers; they ...

Vibration calibration and measurement techniques are critical for ensuring the accuracy and reliability of sensors and instrumentation employed in diverse fields such as civil engineering, seismology, ...

A study on the quantum processes titled "Time-reversal-based quantum metrology with many-body entangled states" has been published in the journal Nature Physics. Researchers from the Massachusetts ...

Digital image correlation (DIC) has emerged as a pivotal non-contact method for capturing full-field structural responses, offering a robust alternative to conventional sensor-based techniques. In the ...

The World Health Organization reports that 360 million people worldwide are affected by hearing loss, generally caused by disease, accidents or damage to middle-ear structures. Researchers at ...