It’s a back-to-school tradition: a visit to the neighborhood shoe store, where employees pull out a well-worn metal foot measuring tool from under a seat to measure children’s feet, fit them with the ...

The U.S. is finally adopting the international foot. Measurements are updated pretty regularly, considering they're so static otherwise. The change is unfathomably minuscule to anyone but big-picture ...

Shoe shops sell a variety of shoe sizes to accommodate a variety of foot sizes -- but what if both the shoe and foot size depended on how it was measured? Recent developments in quantum theory suggest ...