Historical accounts report that a mass standard pre-dated the Norman Conquest and was referred to as the pound of the Tower of...

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The old riddle that asks whether a pound of feathers is heavier than a pound of lead is not as simple as it seems. Some...

Stories from Physics 11-14 14-16

Researchers have recently attempted to answer the questions of why the largest animals are not the fastest. They suggest that...

Stories from Physics 11-14 14-16

The term ‘mass’ is derived from the Latin massa meaning a lump of dough or paste. In many ancient cultures, despite...

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On 23rd July 1983, a Boeing 737 jet flying from Montreal to Edmonton completely ran out of fuel and had to glide for 30...

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The equations of Newtonian and relativistic gravitation do not exclude the possibility of negative mass. Counterintuitively...

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During his time in Venice, Galileo and a friend sent letters to a Jesuit priest pretending to be a rich widow with religious...

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A paper has considered whether it is possible to jump into orbit on a body of small mass, such as Mars’s moon Deimos. The...

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Samoan Air has begun charging customers by their mass. The rates vary depending on the route but range from $1 to $4.16 per...

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The Boston physician, Dr Duncan MacDougall, carried out one of the strangest mass measurements ever performed, reported in a...

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