👉 Watch the video of Sarah’s school science experiment here! Hello parents, teachers and students! Want to see the science of meteorology right in your home? Try making this Topo-Chico thermometer ...

Have you ever placed a thermometer under your tongue and wondered how that tiny device knows if you have a fever? Or checked the weather and thought about how scientists measure temperature so ...

Introduction Are you sometimes eager to understand how things work? Or excited about making useful objects and instruments yourself? Did you ever imagine you could build your own liquid thermometer?

A new device eavesdrops on objects to take their temperatures. Hot objects not only glow, but also softly hum. The hum is generated by the rapid jitters of particles that make up the hot object. If ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced last week that it would stop calibrating mercury thermometers starting March 1 a move that brings the U.S. one step closer to ...

Widiatmo Januarius (Senior Researcher), Thermometry Research Group, the Research Institute for Physical Measurement (Director: Yasuhiro Nakamura) of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial ...

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Measuring the temperature of objects at a nanometer-scale has been a long challenge, especially in living biological samples, because of the lack of precise and reliable nanothermometers. An ...

For decades, mothers checked their children for fevers by using a fragile glass stick filled with a silvery liquid. Formerly a medicine-cabinet staple, these mercury thermometers have lately been ...

Hello parents, teachers and students! Want to see the science of meteorology right in your home? Try making this Topo-Chico thermometer with Meteorologist Sarah Spivey. Be sure to check out GMSA@9 on ...