In 2025, award-winning British stage actor Joan Plowright, the widow of Laurence Olivier, died. She was 95. Her family says Plowright died at a retirement home for actors in southern England, ...

Former President Gerald Ford signed the Metric Conversion Act 50 years ago. However, he did not make metric adoption mandatory, and the efforts fell flat. For a look at where metric measurements have ...

We earn commissions from purchases you make using links in our articles. Learn more. If you need precise measurements, you're going to want digital calipers. When it comes to measuring lumber or ...

Researchers have developed a new tool, FibrilPaint combined with the FibrilRuler test, that allows scientists to directly measure the length of toxic Tau amyloid fibrils in tiny fluid samples, from ...

Dariusz Jemielniak is Vice-President of the Polish Academy of Sciences, faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, and Professor at Kozminski ...

Last Aug. 28, at the “Ready-For-School” event in the Middle School, I overheard one SLCSD teacher say to another: “China’s technology beats ours because we haven’t embraced the metric system.” I know ...

PowerToys comes with an option called Screen Ruler. As it denotes, it displays a ruler on demand. To show a ruler on screen using PowerToys, follow these steps: Open the PowerToys app on your computer ...

Sign at Ruler Foods on Town Center Boulevard on Wednesday, August 6, 2025. Ruler Foods on Town Center Boulevard is scheduled for closing Aug. 18. The grocery’s Springfield Avenue location will remain ...

Learn how to create a simple, effective measuring tool at home. This DIY project is perfect for those who want an easy way to measure length with precision! FBI releases images of person of interest ...

You’ve no doubt heard the carpentry proverb “Measure twice, cut once” and may even have made it a mantra for your own projects. But unless you know how to use a tape measure and correctly read its ...