measurements

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Ethan Allen designer Ellen Kilroy still visits homes to snap photos and take measurements, but she has traded her board of furniture-shaped magnets for three-dimensional renderings.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

Scientists then compared the light spectrum recorded during the transit with the baseline measurements.

From Science Daily • May 22, 2026

At one coal-burning unit, emissions for mercury, nitrogen oxide and sulfur dioxide were well under permitted levels, according to hourly and 24-hour measurements on a computer screen.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026

Estimates of its energy potential were largely theoretical because scientists lacked direct long-term measurements from real-world sites.

From Science Daily • May 20, 2026

But did Galileo make his measurements in Florence, or earlier in his life in Venice?

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton