You probably know the speed of light is 299,792,458 metres per second. What does that mean in layman's terms? According to At-Bristol's Ross Exton, you can prove the speed of light... using chocolate.

Haroun joined Android Police in 2021, reporting on the latest stories in the tech world. Since then, he’s gleefully covered everything from the most mundane Google Docs features to more mainstream ...

Researchers have developed a technique for measuring speed and distance in indoor environments, which could be used to improve navigation technologies for robots, drones -- or pedestrians trying to ...

A common refrain I am hearing from executives these days is that we have seen more change in the past six months than we have in the past six years. It is not just the magnitude of change; it is also ...

Observational clues The transit of Venus allows a geometrical measurement of the Earth–Sun distance, and a measurement of the speed of light. (Courtesy: iStock/milehightraveler) Light is so ...

No matter how fast you move, the light will always catch you. Nowadays we take the speed of light for granted. It's a fundamental constant of the universe: light simply travels at the speed it does ...

Google Earth allows you to measure the distance between two points on the Earth, as well as the circumference of a circular section of the ground — or even the elevation of a mountain. But in order to ...

Here on land, the speed of a vehicle is recorded in either miles per hour or kilometers per hour. In either case, determining how fast you're moving on land is fairly simple because you can see ...

Today’s Google Doodle pays homage to a discovery that has had a profound effect on astronomy and essentially all of our observations of the Universe. The animation depicts Ole Rømer, a Danish ...