Although the United States hasn’t adopted the metric system as the sole system of measurement, in reality, we use the metric system every day.

So why are there metric measurements on other parts of the label? If you look at the food products we use, there’s a mishmash of information listed in both U.S. customary units and metric units.

Ever wondered what happened to our country’s conversion to the metric system? I did too. So, I did some digging and turned up some dead bodies in the process. Advertisement Article continues ...

To handle an exponential growth in data, the metric system is getting its first update in three decades Based on the measuring system's new prefixes, Earth’s mass is about six ronnagrams. That ...

The metric system is widely adopted worldwide, but we still use a base-60 system for timekeeping that predates the rest of the metric system.

Metric System Demonstration Apparatus Americans have long used diverse weights and measures, reflecting their diverse origins. From colonial times, converting from one unit to another was part of ...

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 ...

A harmonized measurement system is one of humanity’s greatest achievements and for any government to promote a return to the old ways is foolishness beyond measure. In the words of the French ...

Are Pirates Who Hijacked Measuring Tools Intended for Thomas Jefferson the Reason US Isn't Metric? "This country could have gone metric right from the beginning," the claim goes, "instead of being ...

New unit measurement prefixes are added to the metric system The mass of the Earth can now be measured as 6 ronnagrams rather than 6,000 yottagrams. An electron's mass can now be said to be about ...