As ever more digital data is created and stored, the world needs more unit measurements to keep up with the ever-expanding numbers. To do so, the 27th General Conference on Weights and Measures on ...

Measurement is one of those invisible systems that quietly shape our daily lives, in terms of how we cook, how we shop, how ...

Before measuring something, it is important to know which unit to use. Estimating its approximate size by comparing it with a more familiar object can help. In order to find a suitable unit of measure ...

This option is useful for those who may travel to another country and need to measure something such as clothing in a department store. For more help getting the most out of your Apple devices, check ...

Canadians measure their height in feet and inches but record distances in kilometers, express the air temperature in degrees ...

The fight to persuade Americans to ditch English units for the metric system in their everyday lives is largely lost. And now even some advocates of grams, meters and the like want to make a tactical ...

Now that the United Kingdom is outside the European Union, it’s reviewing thousands of EU rules and regulations to see which it should jettison. Among them is the compulsory use of the metric system ...