Justices rejected a request by Republican-led states to stop the Biden administration from using the social cost of carbon in regulations. In a reprieve to the Biden administration, the Supreme Court ...

IEEE 1541-2002 (adopted in 2005 and reaffirmed in 2008) defines that standard metric prefixes should not be used when referring to base 2 numbers, typical in computing. Metric uses base ten for ...

Following the loss of the Mars Climate Observer, the NASA Office of Inspector General initiated a review of the Agency’s use of the metric system. By law and policy, the metric system is the preferred ...

Much to the chagrin of many living in North America who still need to do things like keep two sets of wrenches on hand, most of the rest of the world has standardized to a simpler measurement system ...

Metric units have conquered the globe, but in the US and the UK, their presence has become part of a culture war between ‘traditional’ and ‘progressive’ values. is a senior reporter who has covered AI ...