Barometers have come a long way since the 1600s. In the early years of the barometer, people used them as status symbols, hanging them in their homes to show wealth.

Of all the features you may have noticed on your iPhone, one that stands out is the Barometer. What does this tool do, and how do you use it?

A new initiative to monitor the health of the world’s oceans was unveiled Sunday at the United Nations Ocean Conference in Nice. The Starfish barometer provides an annual snapshot of ocean ...

Headline barometers such as the S&P 500 Index measure the broad market by tracking the price performance of a diverse portfolio of companies representative of the U.S. economy.

This has been a good omen going forward, according to the January Barometer, a theory that the performance of stocks in January can predict how the rest of the year will turn out. Whether the ...

In a mercury barometer, it measures the pressure of the atmosphere around you and pushes it against the liquid mercury. If the atmospheric pressure around you is high the mercury will rise.

Samsung’s Galaxy Nexus is the most high-profile device to date to feature a barometer amongst its guts. Seems strange that a atmospheric pressure measurement would be crammed in a device where ...

For example, proponents of this January Barometer believe that if the S&P 500 rises between Jan. 1 and Jan. 31, this will foretell a positive result for the remainder of the year. Similarly ...

Claim: A physics professor gives a final examination that requires his students to explain how to measure the height of a tall building using a barometer. Instead of the expected answer (i.e ...

It involved making an aneroid barometer with a balloon, pencil and an empty jar. As the season shifted into fall, I obsessed over the pencil's reactions to daily weather patterns and learned ...

If you are wholly unfamiliar with what a barometer does, the devices are designed to measure atmospheric pressure, which is sometimes called barometric pressure, hence the name.