Among science's most sacred relics are the standard "meter bars" of platinum-iridium that lie in an underground shrine at Sèvres, near Paris. Replacing a babel of medieval units, ...

A downtown bar is closing for good and the owner blames meter maids, parking limitations, city officials and other factors in a lengthy Facebook post. Riff Raff Tavern on Canal, 130 N. Patterson ...

At that time the 11th CGPM defined the meter in the new International System of Units, or SI, as equal to 1,650,763.73 wavelengths of the orange-red emission line in the electromagnetic spectrum ...

What's it like to have a drink in a 3 square meter bar? We decided to find out by visiting the world's smallest bar, called Troynichok, which opened in Moscow on August 7.