You’re moving, or maybe you’ve just got a lot of stuff, and you need to rent out a storage container—but you have no real sense for how much storage you need. Keep reading, because understanding the ...

LiDAR uses lasers to measure the distance, shape, and orientation of objects around you, making it great for both mapping and modeling.

Q. My brother (a basketball player) says giraffes are the biggest land animals because they are the tallest. How do scientists determine what the biggest animals are? A. Scientists, as well as people ...

Your iPhone Pro and iPad Pro may have a helpful and powerful feature you might not know about. Built directly into the last few generations of devices, the Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) scanner ...

You've no doubt encountered a number of measuring tools in your lifetime. Common tools used for measuring range from the familiar 12-inch wooden ruler that we used in grade school to precision ...

Radiocarbon dating, or carbon-14 dating, is a scientific method that can accurately determine the age of organic materials as old as approximately 60,000 years. First developed in the late 1940s at ...