CARSON CITY — Forget the meters and liters. Nevada’s leaders would rather stick with yards and quarts. Legislators gave up Friday on a more than 30-year move to induce residents to switch to the ...

Australia is taking its first brisk steps toward conversion to a fully metric system of weights and measures over the next 10 years…. The arguments for conversion to metric in Australia have been ...

Measurement is one of those invisible systems that quietly shape our daily lives, in terms of how we cook, how we shop, how ...

1 In late 1975, President Gerald Ford had a unique vision for making America great again. He wanted to embrace a French invention – one that Thomas Jefferson himself had championed. He wanted America ...

Have you ever noticed that systems of measurement tends to change when you leave the United States? Weight is typically measured in kilograms instead of pounds, distance is measured in kilometers over ...