Metric Units for the Solar System is an exploration of our relationship with the systems of ‘standardized units’ we have created to order society; examining the various tensions implicit in the ...

A unified measuring system allows people from different nations to trade with one another without doubting what they are getting. Many attempts to make units of measure standard have come and gone ...

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 ...

Brexit minister Lord Frost announced on Thursday that the ban on making imperial measurements in shops “stand out more” than metric units could soon be lifted, as the government is looking to unpick ...

NARRATOR: The metric system is a way of measuring things. So with length, the metric measurements are millimetres, centimetres, metres and kilometres. A stamp, would be measured in millimetres. There ...

In the run-up to the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations, Boris Johnson is reportedly set to mark the occasion in a unique way that has divided opinion. A Cabinet source has claimed that the Prime ...

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

The process of designing with metric motion-control components is quite similar to that with their English-dimensioned counterparts. The same design principles and formulas used for English-based ...

An oft-repeated "weird fact" is the claim that, if not for the scourge of Caribbean piracy, the United States would have adopted the metric system in the 1790s, making it the country's standard system ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

In this era of marketing metrics and measurement abundance, it’s easy to get lost in the data. Most marketing teams track and report on every possible customer interaction. But if you could only ...