Photo illustration: Graham Bower/Cult of Mac Apple’s VO 2 max metric measures the performance of your heart and lungs when you push yourself to the limit. Up until now, though, it’s only been useful ...

Most people think the U.S. never adopted the metric system - but that’s not the whole story. Long before Europe standardized its measurements, America quietly implemented a system based on the very ...

When we saw a ‘We the People’ petition to the White House to make the US move to the metric system, we listed very sensible reasons why the US should listen: The imperial system is archaic, irrelevant ...

officially use the metric system for weights and measurements. On the brink of Thursday’s Brexit vote, author Daniel Pink wonders when, if ever, the U.S. might join the rest of the metric world.

If I'd have received a cookie for every single time I got myself into an argument with someone about how much horsepower a certain car has, then I'd probably not be able to fit in a mid-size car now.

St. Vincent de Paul School in Cape Girardeau is celebrating metric measurements this week. Virginia Sander, a junior high math teacher, said she got the idea to celebrate metric week from an e-mail ...

Americans have long used diverse weights and measures, reflecting their diverse origins. From colonial times, converting from one unit to another was part of courses in commercial arithmetic. The ...

Now that the United Kingdom is outside the European Union, it’s reviewing thousands of EU rules and regulations to see which it should jettison. Among them is the compulsory use of the metric system ...