Here’s a good trivia question: What are the only 3 countries in the world that do not use the metric system? Everybody knows the good ol’ hard headed USA is in there, but the other two? How about ...

The students in Shanda Sears' eighth-grade science class at Vernon Johns Jr. High School in Petersburg are taking a hands-on approach to learning how to using the metric system. The classes conducted ...

Most of the world measures things using the metric system. Learn more about this standard of measurement and how it is getting more and more accurate.

The field of metric learning focuses on tailoring distance metrics to better capture the underlying structure in data by learning from examples. By optimising the measure of similarity between samples ...

A mural of a 30-meter-long blue whale covers the basketball court at Santa Barbara Charter School. (Courtesy photo) Santa Barbara Charter School has secured a $5,000 grant from the Santa Barbara ...

Students are introduced to the metric system. Introduction to Chemistry continues with a discussion of the Metric System: length, mass, volume, time and temperature are defined, and students learn the ...

If you know your U.S. history, there have been several attempts to adopt the metric system, all to no avail. It's the universal standard for most of the world and way more intuitive, yet the chances ...

In 1972, Australians had to learn a new way to describe the weather, when the Bureau of Meteorology changed to the metric system. This ABC News report explains the change in terms such as 'fahrenheit' ...