On Oct. 23, between 6:02 a.m. and 6:02 p.m., chemists celebrate Mole Day. Mole Day is not a day to celebrate those furry little creatures that live in the ground. Rather, it is a day to celebrate a ...

Today, chemistry students and nerds everywhere celebrate Mole Day with stuffed animals, cakes, t-shirts and a whole lot of puns and bad jokes. In this case, a mole isn't referring to the cute ...

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It doesn’t happen too often, but after a vote that took place earlier today near Paris, science textbooks really will have to be rewritten. At the Congress Chamber in the Palace of Versailles, ...

Relics in the form of rods, rulers, and weights go back thousands of years, suggesting that people have long cared about standardized measurements. Today, the International System of Units(SI) defines ...

Scientific units are set to receive their biggest shake-up since the inception of the modern metric system in 1960. The International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) — one of three committees ...