Balancing act The two systems of measurement – imperial and metric – are often used together in UK shops. (Courtesy: iStock/Paolo Paradiso) When I was at primary school in the 1960s, measurements were ...

When I asked in a tweet: “Has anyone got any genuine reasons why imperial is better than metric?” – I had over 2,000 replies in just over 24 hours. Did it help me make up my mind? One argument for ...

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 ...

The time has finally come for the metric system’s long-scheduled upgrade. Next week, the General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) will meet for the 26th time. When it does, it will revamp the ...

A mural of a 30-meter-long blue whale covers the basketball court at Santa Barbara Charter School. (Courtesy photo) Santa Barbara Charter School has secured a $5,000 grant from the Santa Barbara ...

As an engineer and science educator, I found reading your coverage of the movement to abandon the metric system in the U.K. disheartening (“U.K. Weighs Saying Cheerio to Metric System,” Page One, July ...

In prehistoric times, not much needed to be measured. You ate what you found and lived where you could. The advent of agriculture and civilization, however, necessitated a way for people to measure ...

A spoonful of sugar might help the medicine go down, but research suggests a spoon is a lousy way to measure out that medicine. Both the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Food and Drug ...