Innovation
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.
Silly, Strange and Sad: Our Best Stories You Might Have Missed This Week
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
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.
Extraordinary, Eccentric and Eerie: Our Best Stories You Might Have Missed This Week
Read on to catch up on some of our latest podcasts and articles.
Puzzling, Peculiar and Phenomenal: Our Best Stories You Might Have Missed This Week
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.
Surprising, Super and Strange: Our Best Stories You Might Have Missed This Week
Ancient Babylonian trigonometry, a mysterious, unidentified corpse and chakrams all make an appearance in this week's roundup of our podcasts and articles.
Researchers Create Protein Powder With Just Microbes, Electricity, CO2 and Water
It's almost like making food out of air.
Awesome, Astounding and Anomalous: Our Best Stories You Might Have Missed This Week
In this week's roundup of our podcasts and articles, a professor finds a treasure trove of Alan Turing's old letters, and a small area of Yellowstone is the perfect place to get away with murder.
Cool, Curious and Compelling: Our Best Stories You Might Have Missed This Week
Gravy wrestling, super-lifelike androids and craft beer brewed with bread are just a few of the awesome topics featured in this week's roundup of our stories.
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?
Unbelievable, Unusual and Unique: Our Best Stories You Might Have Missed This Week
In this week's roundup of HowStuffWorks podcasts and articles, a neurological disorder causes an addiction to joking, and slug mucus inspires surprisingly strong glue for biological tissues.
It's not quite a robot butler, but two companies hope their real-life appliances will cross one tedious laundry chore off your list.
The Stanford Prison Experiment is one of the most well-known psychological studies, infamous for the participants' cruel behavior. But the whole story of the study is much more complex.
No, We Didn't Just Teleport an Object to Space — But Here's What Did Happen
We shouldn't discount a new Chinese breakthrough in photonic quantum teleportation, but we shouldn't overblow it, either.
Scientists have created a nano-sized anti-reflection film inspired by moths' eyes, potentially making electronic screens easier to read in bright sunlight.
Food spoilage is an urgent issue for the millions of people with unreliable electricity — or no electricity at all. A supercool $35 fridge could change that common scenario.
Curious, Crazy and Compelling: Our Best Stories You Might Have Missed This Week
Check out stories about paid protesters, brain hacking and the insane amount of U.S. food waste in this week's roundup of articles and podcasts.
Cool, Comical and Captivating: Our Best Stories You Might Have Missed This Week
A robo-falcon, a smog-scrubbing bicycle and head transplants all make appearances in this week's roundup of HowStuffWorks podcasts and articles.
Incredible, Intriguing and Irrational: Our Best Stories You Might Have Missed This Week
Check out this week's roundup of our articles and podcasts for stories on body suspension, e-residencies in Estonia and a facial recognition database that your photo just might be in.
Amazing, Astonishing & Absurd: Our Best Stories You Might Have Missed This Week
Read on to get the scoop on a $10 million ransom for Enzo Ferrari's corpse, Americans' biggest fear and the wonderful world of gastropods.
With antimicrobial resistance a worldwide threat, researchers develop a new antibacterial dressing using the shells of crustaceans.
Nearly every second, an elderly person falls in the U.S. A lightweight exoskeleton designed to kick in when a senior trips or slips could remedy this common problem.
Humans are nature's best throwers, and new research suggest this has to do with practice — and some complex internal math.
Awesome, Astounding & Atypical: Our Best Stories You Might Have Missed This Week
Read on for a roundup of our latest podcasts and articles, from plastic-eating caterpillars to a radical 19th-century political assassination plot.
MIT has created a system capable of 3-D printing the basic structure of an entire building, cutting time and money costs — with an eye on Antarctica, and even Mars.
