From pacing out distances with our feet to defining the kilogram by the Planck constant, measurement has come a long way. Across history, humans have sought consistent ways to compare, quantify, and ...

A comet born around another star is carrying water unlike anything found in our solar system. Observations of interstellar ...

Earth’s gravitational force, g, has been known for centuries. But the exact value of G, the universal gravitational constant, ...

Measuring the strength of gravity is extraordinarily difficult, and different experiments have always disagreed – but a new ...

Abstract: The application of deep learning systems in the perception of autonomous vehicles results in the need for information about the trust in its predictions. In our work, we use methods from the ...

Testing dozens of the best bathroom scales over the past year has completely changed how I think about them. A device that ...

Abstract: Battery impedance yield critical insights into the state of charge and state of health of the battery. Traditional online measurement usually requires additional circuits to introduce ...

The Mars Climate Orbiter (MCO) launched in late 1998 and was predicted to reach Mars nine months later. But that never actually happened. As the MCO approached Mars, it ventured far too close and ...