Meet the metric system’s newest prefixes: ronna-, quetta-, ronto- and quecto-. Science News spoke with Richard Brown, head of metrology at the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington, England, ...
As ever more digital data is created and stored, the world needs more unit measurements to keep up with the ever-expanding numbers. To do so, the 27th General Conference on Weights and Measures on ...
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The inch, based on the length of a thumb, and the foot based on, well, the length of a foot, are inherently associated with human scale (Getty/iStock) Sign up to our free Brexit newsletter for our ...
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