Take our interactive quiz below to test your knowledge of measurement systems, then and now. Some of you might remember that we were free to choose how we weighed our beans or bream until 2000 when ...

A key to planning for retirement is having a rough estimate of how long your retirement years will stretch out. And that comes down to making an educated guess about your life expectancy. One way to ...

Units from the metric system can be used to describe the mass, volume or length of an object. Mass is measured in grams (g) and kilograms (kg). Volume is measured in millilitres (ml) and litres (l).

In Word of Mouth Michael Rosen and Laura Wright talk to maths writer Rob Eastaway about how and why imperial and metric measurements co-exist in the UK – creating a measurement minefield to navigate ...