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.

Advocates of the metric system are accustomed to such scorn. Back in 1972, Rhode Island senator Claiborne Pell was attacked by his Republican opponent for wasting time on low-priority items like ...

The lecture of Prof. CHARLES DAVIES, of Columbia College, in the great hall of the Cooper Union, Saturday evening, was listened to with marked interest by a large audience.

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." ...

Meet the metric system’s newest prefixes: ronna-, quetta-, ronto- and quecto-. Adopted November 18 at the 27th General Conference on Weights and Measures in Versailles, France, ronna- and quetta ...

The humorist Dave Barry has more than once suggested "millipedes" as an imaginary unit of measurement (for example, 120 miles = 2,342,424,323.3432 millipedes), poking fun at the inscrutability of ...

Uncle Sam versus the metric system Jason Schneider. While most nations use the metric system—those units of decimals that are universally employed in science—the U.S. still clings to pounds ...

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 ...