That’s because America — and a few other countries — stick to the Fahrenheit scale for temperatures while the rest of the ...

But in fact, there’s quite a few advantages to using the Fahrenheit scale – and it’s no less scientific just for its lack of a decimal base. Indeed, “any scale, including Fahrenheit or ...

Building a thermometer is a matter of precise technology—putting just the right amount of mercury into a specially designed glass tube, for instance—but determining which numbers to use on the ...