(PhysOrg.com) -- The last tests of the Ariane 5 rocket system have been finished and ESA's Planck satellite is sitting ready for launch at the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou. Together with ESA's space ...

Scientists of the Planck collaboration, and in particular the Trieste team, have conducted a series of in-depth checks on the discovery recently publicized by the BICEP2 project — the Antarctic ...

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have made their most precise determination yet of Planck’s constant. This will let NIST redefine the kilogram, the official ...

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 ...