Christmas, candles and the countdown to the SI redefinition

Blog - Perhaps unsurprisingly, the candela was originally based on the light of a candle – but a definition based on something so variable was not good enough for measurement scientists. The candela, or ‘the new candle’, replaced candle-based definitions in 1948. In 1979 the modern definition of the candela was adopted:

20 December 2018
The importance of standardisation of diagnostic measurements in the COVID-19 pandemic

Blog - Dr Jim Huggett, Principal Scientist at the NML at LGC, recently answered some of our questions around why standardised measurement is so important to medicine.

02 July 2020
Rediscover Measurement for Recovery to help your business

Blog - Last summer, the National Measurement Laboratory (NML) at LGC, alongside other National Measurement System Laboratories, launched Measurement for Recovery (M4R) to help companies across the UK to recover in the challenging economic environment resulting from COVID-19, by giving them access to the expertise and resources of the UK’s leading measurement science laboratories.

22 July 2021
Boosting Scotland’s Food and Drink industry with measurement science

Blog - In support of advancing innovation in measurement research, a centre focussed on advanced measurement research and health translation was launched in Glasgow in December 2019, as an articulation of a strategic continuing partnership between the UK National Measurement Laboratory (NML) hosted at LGC and the University of Strathclyde

20 August 2021