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Helicopters are perhaps at their coolest when they’re being used as flying cranes — from a long dangling cable, they can carry everything from cars, to crates, to giant hanging saws. Wh…

When MIT and Quaker Oats paired up to conduct experiments on unsuspecting young boys

A man passes away without a word in the mountains of North Carolina, and his grandson sets out to write about the importance of a seemingly unimportant life.

Within weeks of finishing his final painting, a murder scene, the artist was himself dead.

The whole idea of progressive enhancement is using the power that the web platform gives us for free — specifically, HTML, CSS and JavaScript — to provide a baseline experience for the people who visit our sites and/or apps, and then build on that where appropriate and necessary, depending on the capabilities of the technology that they […]

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The Markov numbers reveal the secrets of irrational numbers and the patterns of the Fibonacci sequence. But there’s one question about them that has resisted proof for over a century.

Exclusive: the $80 Lego Ideas Polaroid OneStep — and how it was made.

A recent scientific study delves into the details of the secret operation in which the U.S. refloated part of a Soviet missile launcher, which was sunk at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean

I spent a recent flight finding out what I could do with an connection to the flight’s wifi, but without access to the internet. I was on my way home from Strange Loop, on a flight from St. Louis to Oakland. It’s a long enough flight that I planned to purchase the $8 internet access and get some work done, but Southwest’s wifi portal wouldn’t accept any form of payment.

Sometimes they produce it, too

It was near impossible to convict scammers of fraud because jurors had a hard time believing that people would willingly engage in self-mutilation.

While ABS may be the most well-known plastic used by LEGO, they actually use a wide variety of plastics. Here’s an example of all the kinds of plastic used by LEGO provided by BrickNerd guest contributor Ryan Howerter.

TW Lim on the unfinished nature of kitchen knives

Vertebral laminae are bony ridges or sheets that connect important morphological landmarks on the vertebrae, like diapophyses or zygapophyses. They usually exhibit some serial variation throughout the column. A consistent terminology facilitates the morphological ...

Inspired by the bacteria-killing structures seen on the wings of some insects, researchers have developed a drug-free way to kill off drug-resistant microbes that commonly cause hospital-acquired infections. Their technique is a novel and effective way of tackling the problem of antibiotic-resistant superbugs.

The average web page has nearly 1MB of images. That's a lot of data. More bytes on average than html...

Beavers love the warming Arctic, so they're re-landscaping it. Their dams change Alaska's lakes and rivers so much you can see it from space.

Are there really just a few basic types? We describe what they are, what they do, and how to tweak them for the best performance.

Ecologists and ranchers alike know that rivers and streams with healthy beaver populations support more biodiversity, are more drought resilient, and keep wa

When it comes to digesting its prey, the plant is a calculating killer.

Why does walking feel so intuitive when we’re in a city built before cars, yet as soon as we return home, walking feels like an unpleasant chore that immediately drives us into a car?

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Lawnmowers detest them

Brown and hazel eyes get their color from melanin, the same pigment that colors your skin. But blue eyes don’t have any blue pigment in them.