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 ...

PARIS — A kilogram just isn't what it used to be. The 118-year-old cylinder that is the international prototype for the metric mass, kept tightly under lock and key outside Paris, is mysteriously ...

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An ounce is an ounce, and a kilogram is a kilogram, but how are these units actually measured? How do your scales know how much a pound or a gram weighs? Since 1889, the kilogram’s definition has been ...