The flow of time isn’t as consistent as we might think – gravity slows it down, so clocks on the surface of Earth tick slower than those in space. Now researchers have measured time passing at ...

If you know your U.S. history, there have been several attempts to adopt the metric system, all to no avail. It's the universal standard for most of the world and way more intuitive, yet the chances ...

Microsoft's Office suite of desktop publishing software includes several applications that facilitate customer management, including Word, PowerPoint and Excel. Small businesses commonly use the Excel ...

A 42.98 GHz spectrum analyzer, the E4447A measures millimeter-wave signals in test and measurement applications such as digital communications, pulsed signals and 3G wireless systems. The instrument ...

On-wafer measurement techniques provide an essential pathway for characterising the performance of semiconductor devices at millimetre-wave frequencies. By directly interfacing with devices on the ...

As ever more digital data is created and stored, the world needs more unit measurements to keep up with the ever-expanding numbers. To do so, the 27th General Conference on Weights and Measures on ...

The metric system is used to measure the length, mass or capacity of an object. Length is measured in millimetres (mm), centimetres (cm), metres (m) or kilometres (km). Mass or weight is measured in ...