iOS: Sometimes you need to get a quick measurement of something and you probably don’t carry a ruler around, but of course, there’s an app for that. VisualRuler gives you a decent estimate of an ...

Researchers in Europe have developed a technique for obtaining accurate laser-based measurements of objects hidden behind complex scattering structures. They say that their mathematical formula, which ...

At the end of the 18th century, the British scientist Henry Cavendish measured the force of gravity between two objects for the first time in a laboratory. The objects in question were lead balls, one ...

A digital weigh scale is one of the most precise analog instruments. Weigh scales, which use force sensors to measure the load offered by an object, are used in a multitude of applications ranging ...

It sounds like a scenario straight out of a sci-fi movie. But researchers at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh have ...