iOS: Sometimes you need to get a quick measurement of something and you probably don’t carry a ruler around, but of course, there’s an app for that. VisualRuler gives you a decent estimate of an ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Astronomers have directly measured a blazing-bright object on the opposite side of the Milky Way, ...

From AR-powered rulers to GPS-based land survey tools, these 8 best measuring apps for iPhone and Android let you measure length, height, area, and even perimeters on the go. Accurate, versatile, and ...

Researchers in Europe have developed a technique for obtaining accurate laser-based measurements of objects hidden behind complex scattering structures. They say that their mathematical formula, which ...

Measure-Object cmdlet has some interesting properties, but it's up to us to figure out how to use them creatively. If you've been reading Prof. PowerShell for a while, I'm sure you've seen a few ...

Tape measures are one of those things that you never seem to be able to find when you need them. Fortunately, it’s likely that you have your phone somewhere near you these days, and now Apple is ...

Stars are not perfect spheres owing to centrifugal force. But there’s a star about 5,000 light-years from here that scientists now say is the roundest natural object ever measured in the universe. A ...

At the end of the 18th century, the British scientist Henry Cavendish measured the force of gravity between two objects for the first time in a laboratory. The objects in question were lead balls, one ...

Unless you work in construction, there’s a good chance you don’t always carry a tape measure with you. So what do you do when you stumble upon something, and you really need to know exactly how big it ...

With the introduction of ARKit in iOS 11, Apple put a stake in the ground in the mobile Augmented Reality race. Some of the best early AR apps used your phone to measure linear distances—a digital ...