It can be frustrating if you’re not familiar with, and don’t have the right tools, to measure grams and millileters. And, if you don’t get it right…well, your recipe will suffer.

Effortlessly switch between different metric units using our Metric System Converter, which allows for smooth conversions between meters, kilometers, kilocalories, and kilojoules. Metric units are ...

THIS diagram of the metric units of length, area and volume is printed on a sheet of paper about 3 feet 6 inches by 2 feet 6 inches. The various measures are shown full size. To be of the greatest ...

The US lives in a metric gray area. It has a few laws requiring that consumer goods list both metric and US customary measures, but it still remains isolated in its US customary measures bubble.

Much to Mitchell’s surprise, her comment about the metric system—officially it’s known as the International System of Units (SI)—evoked a strong reaction. She received a standing ovation ...

I’m including it here for those who, like myself, are metric conversion disadvantaged (see box). Hopefully, after making the conversions for a long enough time, one can begin to have the internal ...

When former Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee announced he was joining the 2016 Democratic primary race, some people scratched their heads when he said switching to the metric system would be one ...

It was in 1866 that the use of metric weights and measures became legal though not standard in the U.S. and, as TIME pointed out during a later debate over the metric system, some non-metric ...