Not everything can be measured in meters, seconds, or the size of a breadbox. Sometimes, to quantify something, extreme and silly steps have to be taken. Find out how big Siberia is, and how long a ...

Humans have a need to quantify things. And sometimes the usual measurements — feet, meters, grams — are not good enough. Or funny enough. Sometimes you need to express things in bananas, Helens, or ...

Electrical or electronic quantities and units are crucial values to know in evaluating and describing the behavior, characteristics and physical properties of a circuit. This quiz can help you recall ...

Conversion of Units: Unit conversion is a multi-step process that involves identifying the starting and desired units, finding the appropriate conversion factors, and strategically using ...

You may use these measurement units in your daily life, but do you know about the scientists they're named after? One of the biggest honors a scientist can receive is to become the namesake of a unit ...

Before measuring something, it is important to know which unit to use. Estimating its approximate size by comparing it with a more familiar object can help. In order to find a suitable unit of measure ...

Oliver Smoot is retiring from his chairmanship of the American National Standards Institute. He lent his name — and body — to the "smoot" — a unit of length, equal to his height (5 feet, 7 inches). In ...

Mount Everest is officially 29,032 feet tall, but that figure only goes so far to capture the peak's magnitude. It's much easier to picture 26 Eiffel Towers stacked on top of one another, or 5696 ...

Are you getting bored with our current units of measurement? Do you constantly weigh the pros and cons of the United States switching over to the metric system, and wonder if there was a better option ...