A mural of a 30-meter-long blue whale covers the basketball court at Santa Barbara Charter School. (Courtesy photo) Santa Barbara Charter School has secured a $5,000 grant from the Santa Barbara ...

May is a month full of celebrations—everything from May Day and Cinco de Mayo to Mother’s Day and Memorial Day. Largely forgotten in the cornucopia of May celebrations, however, is National Metric ...

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 ...

The metric system's governing body has added some new terms to help describe massive amounts of data. The General Conference on Weights and Measures last week added the prefixes "ronna" and "quetta." ...

If I'd have received a cookie for every single time I got myself into an argument with someone about how much horsepower a certain car has, then I'd probably not be able to fit in a mid-size car now.