This video explores the historical, cultural, and practical reasons the United States continues to use customary units, and ...

December 23, 2025, marks the 50th anniversary of the Metric Conversion Act, designed to bring US weights and measures in line with the rest of the world. The United States is one of the last holdouts ...

Former President Gerald Ford signed the Metric Conversion Act 50 years ago. However, he did not make metric adoption mandatory, and the efforts fell flat. For a look at where metric measurements have ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif., November 19, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oklo Inc. (NYSE: OKLO) and Siemens Energy have signed a binding contract for the design and delivery of the power conversion system for Oklo’s ...

Last Aug. 28, at the “Ready-For-School” event in the Middle School, I overheard one SLCSD teacher say to another: “China’s technology beats ours because we haven’t embraced the metric system.” I know ...

The United States is one of just three countries that "prefers" imperial measurements over the international metric standard. The motivation why has less to do with official policy than you might ...

Back when I was a Catholic-school kid in northern Wisconsin, my school lessons briefly focused on the metric system. This was in the late 1970s. Along with learning cursive and the referents of rosary ...

At its core, feed efficiency asks how well do cows utilize the feed that is provided. There are many ways to define feed efficiency depending on context, whether in research, genetic evaluation or ...

The United States nearly adopted the metric system in the 1790s. A French scientist was on his way with the official kilogram to convince Congress—until pirates intercepted his ship ABC suspends Jimmy ...