This video breaks down why metric is the global standard, how it’s defined by the laws of physics, and why the U.S., Liberia, and Myanmar remain the last holdouts.

In the 1790s, piracy of a ship carrying metric standards intended for then-U.S. Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson played a role in America's decision to not adopt the metric system.

The metric system typically wasn’t taught in American elementary schools prior to 1972, but that changed in 1974 with the Metric Education Amendments.

Though the U.S. officially declared SI the nation’s preferred system through the 1975 Metric Conversion Act, even federal agencies were slow to adopt metric in industry, education, commerce, and ...

A SHORT time ago (March 29) Dr. C. E. Guillaume contributed to the Paris Academy of Sciences a paper on the obligatory adoption of the metric system in Japan. The Decent Japanese law making- the ...

Metric System Demonstration Apparatus The Origin of the Metric System After the revolution of 1789, French citizens sought uniform weights and measures throughout the nation. The National Assembly 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 ...

As an engineer and science educator, I found reading your coverage of the movement to abandon the metric system in the U.K. disheartening (“U.K. Weighs Saying Cheerio to Metric System,” Page ...

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 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." ...

A metric prefix is a numerical multiplier that is placed before a basic unit of measure to indicate a specified multiple or fraction of that unit. They range from the smallest, 'yocto' (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 ...