Taking the first steps of what would be a major historical advance in the science of measurement, the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology is participating in a worldwide effort to ...

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 ...

Weighty matters: a platinum-iridium kilogram belonging to the US National Institute of standards and Technology. (Courtesy: J.L. Lee/NIST) Metrologists and policy-makers from 60 countries around the ...

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 ...

If scientists had sacred objects, this would be one of them: a single, closely guarded 137-year-old cylinder of metal, housed in a vault outside of Paris. It is a prototype that precisely defines a ...

Metrology is defined as the science of measurement. Metrology dates back to the ancient world, but modern metrology is derived from the politics French revolution, where the standardisation of units ...

Move to switch to metres follows the introduction of the use of litre Add as a preferred source on Google Dubai: The UAE will implement the International System of Units (SI) replacing feet, inches ...