What does it mean that Wednesday’s earthquake registered a 4.4? An early morning earthquake woke many in Atlanta on Wednesday morning, registering 4.4 on the Richter scale. But what does that mean?

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–Astronomers led by an MIT professor have revised the scale used to assess the threat of asteroids and comets colliding with Earth to better communicate those risks with the public.

Whether your ceilings are low or high, your space is small or spacious, it is important to select and choose furniture that is the appropriate size and scale. When it comes to furnishing a space, so ...

It is not always possible to draw objects, such as a building, using the real-life measurements, as they are too big or in other cases, too small. Instead, a scale drawing is used to recreate ...

To truly understand our place in the universe, we must first comprehend the concept of scale. It is only through understanding the relative sizes of the entities around us that we can appreciate the ...