The kilogram has the dubious distinction of being the only SI unit still based on a physical object; specifically, a metal cylinder kept in a vault in France. Plans are well underway to redefine the ...

"I could just as easily have become a philologist or a historian. What led me to hard science was a course of mathematical lectures which I attended at the university and which gave me an inner ...

Planck's constant reveals the quantum world's fundamental energy levels. It shows how light and matter exist in discrete units (quanta). This constant defines limits to our knowledge of particle ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Tuesday marks two years since a West Los Angeles woman disappeared shortly after being seen walking her dog downtown. Friends of Heidi Planck marked the day by canvassing the ...

Los Angeles detectives have obtained security camera footage from a residential building in downtown LA where officials found a dog belonging to missing woman Heidi Planck. Planck, a 39-year-old ...

A new study provides answers based on a survey with more than 6,000 researchers from the Max Planck Society and the ...

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Authorities in Los Angeles County began searching a landfill Monday for evidence related to the disappearance of a woman who vanished in October. Detectives with the Los Angeles Police Department, ...

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Tune an FM radio to one of those empty spots between one station and another and out comes the buzz of static that says: Nothing to hear here. But there is something. Deep within the static is an ...

In 1899 Max Planck became a professor at the University of Berlin, after nine years at the University of Munich and Kiel University, in Germany. In his research there, he turned to a thermodynamic ...