Decimal time: life in a world where our days are divided differently
Betty Barber reviews The Clockwork Conspiracy by Sam Sedgman
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Body-based units of measurement offer advantages over standardized systems, speaking of Oppenheimer
This podcast looks at traditional measurement units around the world
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Physicists measure the fine structure constant directly for the first time
New technique could lead to clearer tests of whether this fundamental constant is truly constant
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Fundamental constant measured at highest precision yet
New value for the fine-structure constant agrees with Standard Model predictions while constraining existence of dark sector
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Shifting fundamental constants could be revealed by shrinking crystals
LIGO-style interferometer could join the hunt for physics beyond the Standard Model
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SI gets a makeover
A key meeting this month is likely to see all SI units defined for the first time in terms of fundamental constants. Benjamin Skuse explains the change
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World Metrology Day: Celebrating an underappreciated science
The UK's National Physical Laboratory opens its doors to shed light on everyday units and the work that goes into defining them
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Antimatter hyperfine splitting is measured at CERN
Antihydrogen has the same spectrum as hydrogen
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Flash Physics: Gold theory and experiment reunited, fish in space, Brexit implications for universities
Today's selection of need-to-know updates from the world of physics
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Antiatoms yield their first optical spectrum
Result paves the way to high-precision tests of matter-antimatter asymmetry
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