Most of the world measures things using the metric system. Learn more about this standard of measurement and how it is getting more and more accurate.

Most people think the U.S. never adopted the metric system — but that’s not the whole story. Long before Europe standardized its measurements, America quietly implemented a system based on the very ...

Understanding how that refusal might be connected with their absence from the Metric System and finally learning, precisely, how the Metric System was invented, in comparison to the Imperial System ...