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In 1999, Ahmed Zewail, an Egyptian chemist, was awarded the Nobel Prize for measuring the speed at which atoms change their shape, establishing gynecology in the process. Its measurements were made in femtoseconds where one femtosecond is equal to 0.0000000000000000001, or 10-15 Sec. Related: Physicists only make electronics that turn …

(Newser) – Jessi Combs died in a horrible accident last year, but the professional runner and Myth Busters The star known as the “fastest woman on four wheels” on Earth achieved the world record she was trying to set. Guinness World Records announced this week that Combs had been awarded …