In science, there are thousands of ways to measure the world around us that the average person may never encounter. For example: Pascals to measure pressure, Candles to measure light intensity, and ...
Is BMI the best way to assess weight and health? (Photo illustration: Jack Forbes/Yahoo Life; photos: Getty Images) Body mass index (BMI) is a simple tool for assessing whether an individual falls ...
WASHINGTON, D.C., June 2, 2015 -- Working with a device that slightly resembles a microscopically tiny tuning fork, researchers at the University of Tsukuba in Japan have recently developed coupled ...
A healthy body fat percentage is between 14% and 31% for women and 10% to 25% for men. However, these are just averages and ...
The Xevo CDMS enhances analysis of large biomolecules, crucial for next-gen therapeutics, using individual-particle mass measurement for molecules up to 150+ MDa. Electrostatic Linear Ion Trap (ELIT) ...
What is mass? It seems like a synonym for weight, but that isn’t quite right. Weight is how we measure the pressure that gravity exerts upon things. But mass? Mass is the actual presence of an item — ...
The ALICE experiment of the Large Hadron Collider has, for the first time, directly measured a phenomenon known as the "deadcone," which has allowed physicists to directly measure the mass of a ...
Determining the size of an Earth-size exoplanet by the amount of starlight it blocks hundreds of light-years away once was the realm of science fiction. Measuring the mass of such a small planet based ...
The seven deadliest acts of intentional criminal violence on American soil since the 9/11 terrorist attacks were all mass shootings and all involved guns that held more than 10 rounds of ammunition, a ...