In a landmark decision, representatives from 60 countries voted to redefine the International System of Units (SI), changing the world's definition of the kilogram, the ampere, the kelvin and the ...

The Consultative Committee for Units, of which NIST is a member and which is one of 10 advisory committees of the International Committee for Weights and Measures (CIPM), submitted a draft ...

It marks the first time in more than three decades that new prefixes have been added to the International System of Units (SI), the agreed global standard for the metric system.

IndusInd International Holdings (IIHL) on Tuesday said it will list the insurance units of Reliance Capital in two to three years, after it completed the transaction to buy the financial services ...

For the first time in more than 30 years, new terms have been officially added to the International System of Units (SI). The four new prefixes – ronna, quetta, ronto and quecto – describe ...

New prefixes in the International System of Units have been confirmed, ushering in ronto and quecto for tiny numbers and ronna and quetta for very large numbers, like the amount of data on ...

Usage: Applied to all SI units (meters, grams, seconds, etc.) and commonly used in computing, physics, and other fields Conversion: Based on powers of ten, making conversions between metric system ...

Revamped definitions of scientific units are on their way. In the biggest overhaul of the international system of units (SI) since its inception in 1960, a committee is set to redefine four basic ...

Is a meter a meter and a second a second? Yes, but they will be defined differently from May 20th on. This marks the beginning of a new era for science. New rules have been in force since May 20th: ...