Numbers increasingly govern public services. Hospitals monitor waiting times, bed capacity, patient satisfaction – to name just a few. Universities are ranked by student satisfaction and prisons ...

Balancing act The two systems of measurement – imperial and metric – are often used together in UK shops. (Courtesy: iStock/Paolo Paradiso) When I was at primary school in the 1960s, measurements were ...

SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwired - Nov 29, 2016) - ProPlus Design Solutions Inc. today unveiled 9812DX™ wafer-level 1/f noise characterization system, an enhanced version of its de facto standard 9812D™, ...

The NIST-4 Kibble balance, an electromagnetic weighing machine that is used to measure Planck's constant, and in turn, redefine the kilogram. Jennifer Lauren Lee / NIST Locked in a vault that requires ...

Struggling to measure flow without using much battery power? This module uses low power, measures flow, and can detect small ...

In prehistoric times, not much needed to be measured. You ate what you found and lived where you could. The advent of agriculture and civilization, however, necessitated a way for people to measure ...