Taxi drivers who slow down when searching for passengers are not only more efficient but also earn more, according to a new ...

With stopwatches, tape measures, and calculators in tow, Mr. Bryant Haynes and his GPS honors physics students visited the Coolidge Park carousel to apply the physics principles of circular motion to ...

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The Earth's atmosphere has been used as a 'laboratory' to carry out a physics experiment which could help to improve the performance of GPS. The Earth's atmosphere has been used as a 'laboratory' to ...

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Some of the most fascinating people that you meet at American Physical Society meetings are not actually physicists, and Bruce Rosenbaum is no exception. Based in Massachusetts, Rosenbaum is a maker ...

Every second of modern life runs on precision — from GPS navigation to the time signals that keep the internet in sync. But scientists at MIT and Harvard have just taken precision to an entirely new ...

Dr. Gladys West is inducted into the Air Force Space and Missile Pioneers Hall of Fame during a ceremony in her honor at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. in 2018. West was an unheralded but vital ...

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Today's GPS smartwatches and other wearable devices give millions of runners reams of data about their pace, location, heart ...

A new study analyzing 2.3 billion GPS data points from 40,000 Chinese taxi drivers found that those who drive slowly and make frequent short turns while searching for passengers are more efficient and ...