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 ...

A spoonful of sugar might help the medicine go down, but research suggests a spoon is a lousy way to measure out that medicine. Both the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Food and Drug ...

This guest post was written by Todd Miklos, the senior director of solar inverter marketing at Advanced Energy of Fort Collins, Colo. Our planet's most abundant form of energy is the sun. Yet ...

Carpenter Sam Worley, 37, stood next to the massive hole in the ground that one day will be the site of the nation’s largest federal courthouse and shook his head in exasperation. Straining to read ...

HOBOKEN, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NICE (Nasdaq: NICE) today announced the Journey Excellence Score (JES), a pioneering new metric designed to precisely measure the quality of customer experience across ...

In the 1790s, piracy of a ship carrying metric standards intended for then-U.S. Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson played a role in America's decision to not adopt the metric system. An oft-repeated ...

New metric to measure poverty Today, the U.S. Census Bureau released a long-promised alternative method for measuring who’s officially considered poor and who isn’t. The old approach, established 50 ...