It’s a little complicated to weigh a dying person on a hospital bed, but that didn’t matter to Duncan MacDougall. In the ...

A new subatomic weight scale can measure masses as tiny as one yoctogram. Less than the mass of a proton, a yoctogram is equivalent to a billionth of a billionth of a millionth of a gram. A yoctogram ...

Welcome to Gear Questions You’re Afraid to Ask, a GOLF.com series produced in partnership with Cleveland/Srixon Golf. This week we unpack matters relating to total weight, back weighting and the often ...

William Blake’s 1805 illustration for Scottish poet Robert Blair's poem "The Grave" imagines the soul rising from the body at death. It’s a little complicated to weigh a dying person on a hospital bed ...