How Christopher Nolan’s Sci-Fi Epic ‘Interstellar’ Actually Led to a Scientific Discovery

Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar created a black hole that would later turn out to be fairly scientifically accurate.
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Gravity Probe B and NASA’s perfect spheres, the 40-year mission that finally heard Einstein’s “whispers” in space-time

Six hundred miles above Earth, four near-perfect gyroscopes spun in superfluid helium to chase a prediction most thought was unmeasurable. This is the story of Gravity Probe B, the decades of ...
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Scale-Factor Stability Control Technique for Closed-Loop All-Fiber Interferometric Optical Gyroscope

Abstract: The paper presents an effective method for scale-factor stabilization and modulation depth control in a low-cost all-fiber interferometric gyroscope utilizing a piezoelectric phase modulator ...
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Optomechanical Gyroscope Based on Micro-Hemispherical Shell and Optical Ring Resonators

Abstract: Silicon photonic integrated circuits and micro-electro-mechanical systems enable the design of compact, high-performance micro-opto-electro-mechanical systems (MOEMS) gyroscopes, such as ...