Only Slate Plus members can gift Slate stories. Become a member to share 10 free articles a month. We live in an age—perhaps the age—of confirmation bias. And given a turbulent sea of information, who ...

A high-tech version of an old-fashioned balance scale at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has just brought scientists a critical step closer toward a new and improved ...

Planck's constant is one of the fundamental constants that sets up all the "rules" for how things work in our universe. (It’s named after the theoretical physicist Max Planck, who is best known for ...

We aren’t sure if [Looking Glass Universe] didn’t trust the accepted number for Planck’s constant, or just wanted the experience of measuring it herself. Either way, she took some LEDs and worked out ...

Physicists in the US say that they have used publicly available data from global positioning system (GPS) satellites to put a limit on how much Planck’s constant might vary from place to place. Their ...

Planck’s constant is one of the most important numbers in science. It describes the relationship between the energy and frequency of an electromagnetic wave in an equation known as the Planck-Einstein ...