When you need a multimeter for testing electrical equipment around the home, it's vital to know what all those symbols around the dial mean.
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How to Measure Nothing Better

Cold atoms could also potentially measure much lower vacuum pressures than ion gauges can. The current lowest pressure they’ve reliably measured is around 10 -9 Pa, and NIST scientists are working on ...
In this article, learn how optical technologies are transforming high-speed communication across deep space missions.
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While we often get a detailed backstory of the projects we cover here at Hackaday, sometimes the genesis of a build is a bit ...
Occasionally a design requires capacitors that are much closer to being identical in value to one another than the usual ...