The kilogram — anywhere in the world, for any purpose — is based on the exact weight of a golf-ball-sized chunk of platinum and iridium stored under three glass bell jars in a vault in an ornate ...

How much is a kilogram? 1,000 grams. 2.20462 pounds. Or 0.0685 slugs based on the old Imperial gravitational system. But where does this amount actually come from and how can everyone be sure they are ...

Preparing for the redefinition of the kilogram: Together with the Technische Universität Ilmenau, PTB is developing scales that are suitable for industry and can be calibrated without weights Together ...

SINGAPORE — A kilogram is hard to fathom. It is a unit of mass, but humans can only sense force and not mass, hence the frequent confusion between mass and weight, which is a type of force, said Mr ...

For the past 128 years, a chunk of metal sitting in a Parisian storage vault has defined one of our most important units of measurement. But the reign of the International Prototype of the Kilogram is ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Project Avogadro seeks to change the definition of a kilogram from the weight of a hunk of metal that currently resides in France to a measurement based on fundamental constants (like every other unit ...

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 ...

DeskTech has launched a new desktop centrepiece in the form of a Kilogram Prototype to commemorate the change to the IPK which was retired earlier this month on May 20th, 2019. Watch the promotional ...

THROUGHOUT MUCH of human history, man has been the measure of many, if not all, things. Lengths were divided up into feet, palms, spans and smaller units derived from the human hand. Other measures ...