IT WAS 1999. That was the year when the first mobile or cell phones equipped with GPS became available. Garmin introduced the NavTalk Pilot aimed at aviators and Benefon, a former Finnish cellphone ...

(Nanowerk News) Measurements are not all the same. While everyday objects, e. g., the components of a car, can be measured quite easily in terms of size, weight, and composition. The situation is ...

Scientists have reached a record precision in radar distance measurements. With the help of a new radar system, an accuracy of one micrometer was achieved in joint measurements. The system is ...

Optical fibre, as the basic carrier of modern high-speed and high-capacity communication, is the key to the interconnection of the world. With the rapid development of the communications industry in ...

In his work, Fadel has now created a solid mathematical basis for realizing real-life measurement applications that use quantum steering as a resource. "In a few simple cases, we already knew that ...

A novel apparatus at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory has made extremely precise measurements of unstable ruthenium nuclei. The measurements are a significant ...