Nepal has remeasured Mount Everest. Now China has to weigh in. The summit of Mount Everest shrouded in monsoon clouds during the 2019 climbing season. Surveyors have been attempting to measure the ...

A new method for quantifying grandeur is reshuffling the pecking order of the planet’s most impressive peaks. Turns out Everest has steep competition. Mount Everest, left, tops out at 29,032 feet ...

Forget grabbing tape measures or relying on road signs to measure distance. No matter what you’re trying to measure, these distance measuring mobile apps make it easy to get accurate results in ...

The Ziplevel Pro-2000 High Precision Altimeter is a precise pressurized hydrostatic altimeter that can replace laser levels on job sites. One person working alone can set up in minutes to level and ...

The European Space Agency’s ACES mission could ultimately pave the way for a global network of atomic clocks that make these measurements far more accurate. In 2003, engineers from Germany and ...

(TNS) — In 2003, engineers from Germany and Switzerland began building a bridge across the Rhine River simultaneously from both sides. Months into construction, they found that the two sides did not ...

Some of my earliest memories are of me “helping” my dad and my grandfather build an addition onto my grandparents’ home. There are pictures of me swinging a hammer while I was still in diapers. One of ...

Parts of California’s Central Valley have been sinking for years, but a new Stanford study quantifies just how much the ground has given way in the past two decades. In the San Joaquin Valley, the ...