It's never been easy to accurately measure the impact of any scientific research, but it's even harder for citizen science projects, which don't follow traditional methods. Public involvement places ...

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 ...

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 ...

Strengthen national statistical systems. Countries need regular, high-quality gender-disaggregated R&D data that are ...

Research into graphene—a sheet of carbon a single atom thick—has yielded measurements of the intrinsic strength of the material, showing that graphene is the strongest material ever encountered.

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 ...

Measurement in quantum systems is an inherently challenging problem. The lines are blurred between object, environment, and measurement apparatus, since all are governed by the same physical laws.

Imagine trying to measure a tennis ball that bounces wildly, every time to a distance a million times its own size. The bouncing obviously creates enormous "background noise" that interferes with the ...