Innovation

Robots are starting to show up in the restaurant industry, but their developers say they're designed to work alongside human workers, not replace them.

By Patrick J. Kiger

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.

By Stell Simonton

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.

By Michelle Konstantinovsky

A startup in California is touting the anti-aging effects of transfusing teenagers' blood on older people.

By Diana Brown

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.

By Alexis Robinson

Why are we still performing scientific tests on live animals?

By Patrick J. Kiger

Dimethylpolysiloxane has many uses, not the least of which might be curing baldness.

By Jesslyn Shields

From the latest news on tracking apps to ghost lights, catch up on some of our best stories of the week here.

By Alexis Robinson

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.

By Alexis Robinson

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.

By Jesslyn Shields

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.

By Alexis Robinson

'The Flintstones' to the Darien Gap, catch up on some of our best stories of the week here.

By Alexis Robinson

From the latest on UFOs to 'The Last Jedi,' catch up on some of our best stories of the week here.

By Alexis Robinson

Although spending time upside down can be good for overall health, doing so eventually can be fatal under the right conditions.

By Jesslyn Shields

What's the likelihood we're living in 'The Matrix'? A new study suggests it's pretty likely we're real after all.

By Patrick J. Kiger

The best stories of the week from HowStuffWorks.

By Sarah Gleim

A beta test of the online game "ArcheAge" revealed that people may be more helpful than harmful when an apocalypse looms.

By Shelley Danzy

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.

By Kate Kershner

Read on to catch up on some of our latest podcasts and articles.

By Yves Jeffcoat

From stories on edible packaging to sheltering in place during a natural disaster, here are our best podcasts and articles of the week.

By Yves Jeffcoat

Neanderthals distilled tar more than 100,000 years before modern humans created glue; archaeologists compared three potential ways this ancient tech was used.

By Jesslyn Shields

Ancient Babylonian trigonometry, a mysterious, unidentified corpse and chakrams all make an appearance in this week's roundup of our podcasts and articles.

By Yves Jeffcoat

It's almost like making food out of air.

By Tracy Staedter