In prehistoric times, not much needed to be measured. You ate what you found and lived where you could. The advent of agriculture and civilization, however, necessitated a way for people to measure ...

Balancing act The two systems of measurement – imperial and metric – are often used together in UK shops. (Courtesy: iStock/Paolo Paradiso) When I was at primary school in the 1960s, measurements were ...

Hospital-acquired infections are growing more difficult to treat due to rise of antibiotic resistance. These infections pose dangerous health consequences for patients and threaten hospitals’ bottom ...

The mystery deepens when we discover that ancient Greek temples, built thousands of miles away and centuries later, encoded the same geodetic principles—their measurements directly derived from the ...

Taking the first steps of what would be a major historical advance in the science of measurement, the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology is participating in a worldwide effort to ...

If scientists had sacred objects, this would be one of them: a single, closely guarded 137-year-old cylinder of metal, housed in a vault outside of Paris. It is a prototype that precisely defines a ...

Last week, Truven Health Analytics released its 2015 list of top 15 U.S. health systems. To arrive at the top 15, the company analyzed data from 340 health systems and 2,812 member hospitals. Scores ...

With the fast pace of business operations, many companies rely on transactional software systems to help them automate business processes. These transactional systems have to process data in real time ...