A method for estimating distances in sailing and astrophysics helps explain why riding on buses and boats can make us nauseous. This month’s Insights puzzle was inspired by a new way to determine the ...

One of the “game changing” pieces of scientific news in 2017 concerns the collision of two neutron stars about 130 million light-years away, first detected on August 17. One reason astronomers and ...

Teledyne e2v has announced a family of CMOS image sensors for 3D laser triangulation – for use in applications such as distance measurement, profile measurement and high resolution physical inspection ...

In 1936, the Ordnance Survey began to construct concrete triangulation pillars, or trig points, to aid accurate measurement and map-making using the principles of trigonometry. By 1962, more than ...