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 ...

Out with the old — kilogram, that is. Scientists will soon ditch a specialized hunk of metal that defines the mass of a kilogram. Oddly enough, every measurement of mass made anywhere on Earth is tied ...

It has been used as a standard unit of weight measurement since the time of the French revolution, based on the precise mass of a lump of metal held in Paris. But the kilogram may be about to be given ...

Washington: Scientists have made the most precise determination yet of the Planck’s constant – an important value in science that will help redefine kilogram, the official unit of mass in the ...

If John Pratt were an international criminal mastermind, he would fly to Paris, don an all-black suit and ski mask and sneak into the elegant French baroque building that serves as headquarters for ...

A kilo is a kilo is a kilo, right? Wrong. Monday marks World Metrology Day, and this year’s edition sees a big change in the way the kilogram unit is defined. In November last year, scientists and ...

Metrology, the branch of science dedicated to measurement, has created better and better systems of measurement for the kilogram based on fundamental principles rather than arbitrary chunks of metal ...

VERSAILLES, France -- In a historic vote, more than 50 nations unanimously approved an overhaul of the international measurement system that underpins global trade and other human endeavours, uniting ...

Scientists and policy makers from around 60 nations voted unanimously Friday to redefine the kilogram. The decision at the General Conference on Weights and Measures in Versailles, France was greeted ...

Meters, kilograms, degrees Celsius. To most Americans, these units of measurement are little more than funny inconveniences on trips abroad. To scientists, they’re the very standards that allow for ...