On January 23–25, engineers and metrologists gathered at the Disneyland Hotel in Anaheim, CA for the 32nd annual Measurement Science Conference (MSC). The conference featured a full day of tutorials ...

During training cruises and regattas, sailors collect valuable data for climate research at sea. A study appearing in Science ...

The Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science has successfully developed a length measurement system that achieves a level of precision approaching the theoretical limit allowed by quantum ...

On a cool February morning in 1904, a spark ignited a fire in the heart of downtown Baltimore. Within hours, a raging inferno swept eastward across the harbor district, consuming everything in its ...

Improvements to the SI are helping to evolve the science of accuracy and measurement. Democratization of the SI creates a traceability calibration chain accessible to anyone, anywhere. Digitization of ...

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I was watching Ben Krasnow making iron nitride permanent magnets and was struck by the fact that about half of the video was about making a magnetometer – a device for measuring and characterizing the ...

The National Measurement Laboratory, Government Chemist and MHRA – three critical national functions of science and safety – brought together in a purpose-designed laboratory facility for the first ...

NASA’s Earth Observing System provides nearly 30 years of continuous, high-quality measurements of Earth’s land, oceans, atmosphere, and ice, supporting climate research and long-term environmental ...

New measurements of fine microplastic particles suspended in the air in homes and cars suggest that humans may be inhaling far greater amounts of lung-penetrating microplastics than previously thought ...