Spread the loveThe future, they say, is autonomous. We’re on the cusp of a technological revolution where vehicles drive ...

A newly developed psychological survey measures "mankeeping"—the unpaid labor women perform to manage their male partners' ...

Humans are animals that measure things. Call us Homo mensura. We have a compulsion to quantify, and for millennia we’ve been inventing new ways to go about it. For anything you can think of, there’s a ...

In the past two decades, impact evaluation has become an unavoidable topic in the social sector. Yet beyond the discourse on how to measure social impact lies a structural problem: We are not ...

For more than 100 years, APA’s journals, books, and databases have provided top-quality psychological research content to scholars around the world. The Breakthrough Research series revisits key ...

Despite the popularity of traditional tape measures, their design is pretty much stuck in the past. The flimsy metal strips that constantly snap back at you are a nightmare for anyone trying to ...

A new method for quantifying grandeur is reshuffling the pecking order of the planet’s most impressive peaks. Turns out Everest has steep competition. Mount Everest, left, tops out at 29,032 feet ...

Computer Science and Engineering Ph.D. student Nayan Bhatia demonstrates Pulse-Fi, technology that uses WiFi signals to measure a person's heart rate. Heart rate is one of the most basic and important ...

Scientists have a problem studying self-love. Research abounds on self-compassion, self-esteem, self-care, and even unconditional positive self-regard. Scholars have published definitions of these ...

From AR-powered rulers to GPS-based land survey tools, these 8 best measuring apps for iPhone and Android let you measure length, height, area, and even perimeters on the go. Accurate, versatile, and ...