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 ...

Precise measurements, not just imagination, drive scientific breakthroughs. From Galileo's telescope revealing Jupiter's moons to LIGO detecting gravitational waves, unblinking instruments ...

An air gap is the distance between the rotor and stator of a large-scale hydroelectric generator. This gap is a very small distance in relation to the size of the rotor. Its measurement to tight ...

How innovations in visibility, usability, and smart sensing are changing who uses tools—and how. For centuries, measurement tools have been essential to architecture, engineering, construction, real ...