December 23, 2025, marks the 50th anniversary of the Metric Conversion Act, designed to bring US weights and measures in line with the rest of the world. The United States is one of the last holdouts ...

Most Americans believe the country rejected the metric system decades ago. In reality, US measurements like feet, pounds, and gallons are officially defined using metric units behind the scenes. The ...

Hundreds of thousands of Canadian forestry workers are hoping for quick government action to save their struggling industry. Punishing U.S. tariffs have left the sector reeling. Industry advocates are ...

The Football Power Index (FPI) is a measure of team strength that is meant to be the best predictor of a team's performance going forward for the rest of the season. FPI represents how many points ...

Below are the current SP+ rankings, last updated after the games of Jan. 9. What is SP+? In a single sentence, it's a tempo- and opponent-adjusted measure of college football efficiency that I ...

Abstract: This article aims to develop a novel hybrid offshore wind-wave energy conversion system (HOW-WECS) configuration which can successfully feed a stable power to the customers of remote ...

Abstract: The modern type-3 wind energy conversion system consists of wind turbine, doubly fed induction generator and advanced AC/DC/AC power converters connected to the grid. To study the dynamic ...