(PhysOrg.com) -- Standard laser devices are fast enough for measuring the size of a room, but they need to be faster for outdoor mobile applications. Researchers have brought these scanners up to ...

The IT industry has gotten good at developing computer systems that can easily work at the nanosecond and millisecond scales. Chip makers have developed multiple techniques that have helped drive the ...

As U.S. clocks shift forward this weekend, many earthlings will find themselves momentarily confused about what time it is. But scientists say a far larger temporal problem is looming on the horizon: ...

Computer systems, hardware and networking technologies have improved so much that two of the world’s largest trading exchanges say they have begun measuring transaction times in microseconds. What is ...