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Do you know how common everyday items, such as mirrors, fireworks or sunglasses work? This collection of Innovation articles explores the workings of objects you may come into contact with on a regular basis.
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A Rube Goldberg machine is intentionally designed to perform a simple task in the most indirect and circuitous fashion possible. Meet the funny man behind these one-of-a-kind contraptions.
Foodborne illnesses kill more than 400,000 people every year. But researchers in Canada have created a patch that could put an end to consuming contaminated foods.
A startup in California is touting the anti-aging effects of transfusing teenagers' blood on older people.
By Diana Brown
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From the latest on the future of license plates to the history of ketchup, catch up on some of our best stories of the week here.
Why are we still performing scientific tests on live animals?
Dimethylpolysiloxane has many uses, not the least of which might be curing baldness.
From the latest news on tracking apps to ghost lights, catch up on some of our best stories of the week here.
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From a Frankensteinian future to what it means to be unladylike in 2018, catch up on some of our best stories of the week here.
We might not be able to reanimate a corpse, but Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein' has influenced the research and ethics of scientists for 200 years.
From the latest on the risks of holding in a sneeze to engineering toys for girls, catch up on some of our best stories of the week here.
'The Flintstones' to the Darien Gap, catch up on some of our best stories of the week here.
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From the latest on UFOs to 'The Last Jedi,' catch up on some of our best stories of the week here.
Although spending time upside down can be good for overall health, doing so eventually can be fatal under the right conditions.
What's the likelihood we're living in 'The Matrix'? A new study suggests it's pretty likely we're real after all.
The best stories of the week from HowStuffWorks.
By Sarah Gleim
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A beta test of the online game "ArcheAge" revealed that people may be more helpful than harmful when an apocalypse looms.
The silliest, strangest and saddest stories of the week, including the gloomy octopus, caring for sick pets and those who go missing from national parks
By Sarah Gleim
HowStuffWorks explains the secrets of static electricity.
Alvarez won the Nobel Prize for his work in particle physics. But he also created a detonator for atomic bombs, and even thought the U.S. should make a hydrogen bomb.
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Read on to catch up on some of our latest podcasts and articles.
From stories on edible packaging to sheltering in place during a natural disaster, here are our best podcasts and articles of the week.
Neanderthals distilled tar more than 100,000 years before modern humans created glue; archaeologists compared three potential ways this ancient tech was used.
Ancient Babylonian trigonometry, a mysterious, unidentified corpse and chakrams all make an appearance in this week's roundup of our podcasts and articles.
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It's almost like making food out of air.
You're going to be looking at the sky anyway, so why not use a citizen-science smartphone app to help NASA while you're at it?