Hiding in plain sight. First, the facts: “It’s been legal to use the metric system in the United States since 1866,” says Elizabeth Benham, program leader of the federal metric program at ...

Here are some quick conversions to bookmark or screenshot, including measurements of inches, feet, yards, miles and the metric system. How many feet are in a yard? There are 3 feet in a yard.

In the 1790s, piracy of a ship carrying metric standards intended for then-U.S. Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson played a role in America's decision to not adopt the metric system.

The metric system is used by nearly every country in the world—except for a stubborn few. Why do countries like the U.S. continue to resist the global standard? In this video, we dive into the ...

Some strongly opposed metric units, and many were content to use familiar measures. Meanwhile, most of the rest of the world went metric. After Great Britain voted to adopt the metric system in 1965, ...

This video breaks down why metric is the global standard, how it’s defined by the laws of physics, and why the U.S., Liberia, and Myanmar remain the last holdouts.

Titaner's new Mix 3.0 ain't your average ruler. The clever dual-scale device boasts attributes such as an extendable measurement system, a measuring caliper, a magnetically retained pen, and a ...

Meet the metric system’s newest prefixes: ronna-, quetta-, ronto- and quecto-. Adopted November 18 at the 27th General Conference on Weights and Measures in Versailles, France, ronna- and quetta ...

The next time you pick up a bag of spuds from the supermarket or fill up the car with petrol, you can thank a treaty signed in 1875 for the metric system that underpins daily life.

The metric system's governing body has added some new terms to help describe massive amounts of data. The General Conference on Weights and Measures last week added the prefixes "ronna" and "quetta." ...

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 ...