After Canada and the United States both announced new policy measures to address oil and gas methane at the COP28 climate summit — just weeks after the EU agreed to extend its methane intensity ...

Scientists measure both the energy released in an earthquake and its damage. In 1902, Italian scientist Giuseppe Mercalli introduced a scale that measures the intensity of an earthquake based on its ...

It is known that more intensive management of hypertension can improve blood pressure control and thus improve cardiovascular outcomes. However, there are several different systems of measuring the ...

With Harvey fresh on our minds and eyes on Hurricane Irma, this week’s weather question covers classifications of hurricanes. As meteorologists, we use the Saffir-Simpson scale to rate hurricanes. The ...

In a follow-up to my last column (“Differing perceptions of training intensity,” (Aug. 3), I’d like to give readers some tools to address the concept of training to proper intensity in order to ...

How it works: Akhil Padmanabha and colleagues have invented a wearable device that can objectively measure the intensity of scratching. (Courtesy: Carnegie Mellon University) A new wearable ring ...