The military’s new height to waist standards aim to better measure health and readiness, but raise concerns about fairness, ...

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 ...

But for builders and skilled tradespeople, tape measures have dozens of equally useful applications in the home or on the job ...

If you know your U.S. history, there have been several attempts to adopt the metric system, all to no avail. It's the universal standard for most of the world and way more intuitive, yet the chances ...