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You may not be the only one who's put on a few over the years. Metrologists—folks who are downright fanatical about weights and ...

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In November, scientists from around the world met in Paris to do something remarkable: they redefined the

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The world's roundest object helps solve the longest running problem in measurement -- how to define the

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Yes, it's only micrograms of difference, but it's still really weird: until 2018, the

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Now to a story that's taken a weight off some scientists' shoulders... Scientists from 60 nations have gathered in France and ...

The US signed the metre convention and bases all customary units on SI standards. As an aside, the Utah constitution from 1895 ...

Standard Measurement and SI Unit Problems in Physics: How Unit Conventions Obscure Mass-Energy Equivalence and ...

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