measurement

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"While a laser looks to the naked eye like a steady beam, there's actually a lot of fluctuation, which causes noise when you're using lasers for measurement," says Vamivakas.

From Science Daily • Mar. 31, 2026

We are overwriting a signal the body is already sending, and we’re doing it at scale, in millions of people, without a baseline measurement to tell us what we’re overwriting.

From Slate • Mar. 22, 2026

Companies that now regularly use artificial intelligence are starting to track their workers’ use of tokens, AI’s unit of measurement, to determine which strategies are efficient.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

The new measurement from LHCb places the particle at a mass that does not match the earlier claim but does agree with theoretical expectations based on its partner particle.

From Science Daily • Mar. 19, 2026

A more helpful measurement perhaps is that it was four times the salary of the Lucasian professor of mathematics at Cambridge: so let’s say £400,000.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton