For a company that makes half the world’s zippers, new ideas have big impacts. At Japan’s YKK, they’ve debuted a zipper sans fabric tape—the typically black-colored strip of material that separates ...

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is a key barometer of inflation, used to determine the annual cost-of-living adjustments for Social Security benefits and to adjust federal income tax brackets. Private ...

Retractable tape measures are easy to use, accurate, and cheap — usually no more than $20. But a Boston startup called Reekon Tools has given this 200-year-old technology a brain transplant. Reekon’s ...

A new method for quantifying grandeur is reshuffling the pecking order of the planet’s most impressive peaks. Turns out Everest has steep competition. Mount Everest, left, tops out at 29,032 feet ...

People use tape measures every day in various tasks, from gardening to construction and everything in between. And, of course, it's a must-have in any DIYer's toolbox. But no matter what your project, ...

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The European Union proposed an array of measures aimed at lightening the regulatory load for defense investments as part of the bloc’s push to boost its arms industry. “We need defense readiness to ...

“It’s a compact powerhouse that’s made my projects smoother and quicker.” Precise measuring is important when it comes to hanging home decor, furniture placement, building a shed, and other DIY ...

You’ve no doubt heard the carpentry proverb “Measure twice, cut once” and may even have made it a mantra for your own projects. But unless you know how to use a tape measure and correctly read its ...