Do you remember your first instrument, the first device you used to measure something? Perhaps it was a ruler at primary school, and you were taught to see distance in terms of centimetres or inches.

This instrument—made by Frequency and Time Systems Inc. (FTS), Danvers, Mass.—dates from the “concept validation phase” of the Global Positioning System (GPS) program between 1974 and 1978. It is ...

SEMICONDUCTORS are the epicentre of artificial intelligence (AI). The Internet of Things (IoT), 5G mobile and cloud computing, chips are the critical component of the digital economy and are only ...