KATHMANDU: Two government surveyors along with other Sherpa climbers today successfully scaled the world’s highest mountain collecting the data for the measurement of height of Mt Everest this morning ...

The Journal of the American Statistical Association (JASA) has long been considered the premier journal of statistical science. Science Citation Index reported JASA was the most highly cited journal ...

Maps, scales and other tools tell of Europeans’ attempts to make sense of race, geography and the novel plants and landscapes in the New World. A 1960 photograph shows a “body box" used to measure ...

University of Illinois Physics Professor Paul Kwiat and members of his research group have developed a new tool for precision measurement at the nanometer scale in scenarios where background noise and ...

When you buy a kilo of sugar or a litre of petrol, how do you know you are getting exactly the amount you paid for? The National Measurement Institute is on to it. "Measurement affects everything we ...

Biological invasions can have dramatic impacts on communities and biodiversity, and are critical considerations in conservation and management decisions. We present a novel analysis to determine how ...