There's a nice kind of irony buried in this story: One of the most sensitive instruments ever built, capable of measuring distortions smaller than the width of a proton, has been quietly held back by something as mundane as heat. And the fix, it turns out, is not some exotic new sensor but a the...

Source: [Phys.org](https://phys.org/news/2026-07-thermal-camera-ligo.html)

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