Your smartphone can not only serve you as a digital ruler, but it can also help you measure various other things. Smartphones are very powerful tools, especially if you pair them up with good apps. In ...

The pupillary distance (PD) measurement is a requirement for people who want to purchase eyeglasses. Here, find out how to measure your PD using a mirror and a ruler. Share on Pinterest Some eyewear ...

An upcoming feature for PowerToys can measure the distance between objects on a screen. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Microsoft ...

A man has come up with a handy way to help measure things using just his finger – a tattoo of a ruler. Steffen Karlsen, 31, asked his partner Julie Strømsnes, 35, to create the fun inking on his right ...

Have you ever been in a situation where you needed to measure something — maybe a baseboard or a window frame — but were caught without a tape measure? Oh no! What do you do? The solution is actually ...

This release is also available in Chinese on EurekAlert! Chinese. College Park, MD (August 31, 2010) -- With the advent of nanometer-sized machines, there is considerable demand for stable, precise ...

Admit it, the iPhone in your pocket is like a Swiss Army Knife - it’s easy to carry and has a tool for almost every job; oh yeah, and it makes phone calls too. A ruler isn’t something you need all the ...

Changing the ruler’s 0 origin means changing the position where the starting point (0) for measurement on the ruler is. The default zero position of the ruler is usually at the left edge of the ...

Measuring snow doesn’t have to be hard. It doesn’t have to be mysterious or controversial. Yet after almost every snow event of consequence, there are debates about whether snow totals were correct ...

Size Matters: Measuring distances between molecules is no simple task, but a team of German researchers has developed a new method that could revolutionize biological research and possibly even impact ...

A team of astronomers led by Nikhil Padmanabhan and David Schlegel has published the largest three-dimensional map of the universe ever constructed, a wedge-shaped slice of the cosmos that spans a ...