The origins of weights and measures

The Doc finds a flaw or two in the newly-published regs

Scientists distinguish between weight and mass, which may seem pedantic until you see what happens on a world where gravity is radically different to Earth’s

DIGITAL 50 YEARS

Short stature has long been shrugged off as a harmless punchline. But for a growing number of young men, height has become a source of existential angst – driving some to explore surgical solutions. Are the extra inches worth it?

Visiting Coventry in 1934, a centre of the motor industry, writer JB Priestley mused that, “The modern motor car represents an astonishing feat of human ingenuity. If we were one half so clever in the

We love moaning. The raw file won’t open, the firmware update wiped your settings. But spare a thought for the early adopters – when digital photography meant ghostly battery life, media cards that could barely hold a lunch break, colours that made everything look a bit ill. Peter Dench hears from top shooters about those early frustrations and breakthroughs, and adds his own…