The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology called this Friday a “turning point for humanity,” even though the difference between this day and the day before weighs, theoretically, nothing ...

The International Committee for Weights and Measures is about to reach a decision that could affect the teaching and understanding of basic science for the next hundred years. It has passed a ...

The official definition of a kilogram has been changing for well over a century, but this week it may be redefined for the final time. After years of debate and discussion, scientists from around the ...

Scientists from around the world are gathering in France today to decide the fate of the kilogram. For nearly 130 years, the kilogram has been based on a lump of metal called the Big K, locked in a ...

Scientists voted on Friday to redefine it based on electric currents. A replica of the International Prototype Kilogram is pictured is seen at the 26th meeting of the General Conference on Weights and ...

VERSAILLES, France — In a historic vote, nations on Friday unanimously approved a ground-breaking overhaul to the international system of measurements that underpins global trade and other vital human ...

We measure stuff all the time—how long, how heavy, how hot, and so on—because we need to for things such as trade, health and knowledge. But making sure our measurements compare apples with apples has ...

Redefinition of the kilogram will not make the kilogram more precise, but it will make it more stable. A physical object can lose or gain atoms over time, or be destroyed, but constants remain the ...

We measure stuff all the time — how long, how heavy, how hot, and so on — because we need to for things such as trade, health and knowledge. But making sure our measurements compare apples with apples ...

Despite having weighed myself in kilograms for quite some time, I've never really contemplated exactly who or what decides what a kilogram is (other than, obviously, being 1,000 grams). But it turns ...