The metric side. The next time you're in the kitchen, grab a measuring cup and look at it closely: not at the side you actually use, but the other one. The side divided in milliliters.

Conversions between metric system units are easy because the system is based on powers of ten. For example, there are 100 centimeters in 1 meter, 1000 meters in 1 kilometer. Conversely, there are 1 ...

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. “This is particularly the case in medicine ...

In fact, government policy since the 1970s has designated the metric system—also known as SI, or the International System of Units—the nation’s preferred system of measurement for trade and ...

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 "quetta." ...

THE controversy with reference to the metric system appears to have passed through two stages and to be approaching the climax of its third, and possibly final, stage. In the first stage the ...

While most of the rest of the world uses the metric system (formally known as the International System of Units, or SI), the United States uses the U.S. Customary System, which—fun fact—is ...