SI Units: In our daily lives, we use measurements constantly, whether it is checking the temperature, weighing vegetables, or measuring the distance between two places. But imagine how confusing it ...

A flaw in the system leaves physicists grappling with dimensionless units. Water is a precious resource. So protest erupted when, last September, India’s Supreme Court ordered Karnataka state to ...

An upcoming change to SI units – due to be officially approved this month – will mark the end of a long journey from defining quantities in terms of objects to using precise, unchanging and universal ...

Deluged by responses to his request for your favourite units, Robert P Crease discovers that non-SI units persist, and are sometimes even popular, among the physics community Setting the standard ...

October 18, 2010 marked the 50th anniversary of the International System of Units, also known as the SI System. Resolution 12 of the 11th meeting of the CGPM (1960) established the system as the world ...

The SI system, adopted in 1960, provides a globally consistent framework for measurements. Learn about this International System of Units (SI) with a comprehensive list of all SI units and their ...

I disagree with your suggestion to promote the radian to the International System of Units (SI units) to address the confusion over dimensionless numbers (Nature 548, 135; 2017). On the contrary, this ...