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HowStuffWorks Illustrated: How Physics Helps Animals Fly
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HowStuffWorks explains how physics helps animals get airborne.
Where Have All the Seashells Gone?
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All that seashell collecting you've been doing actually hurts the environment.
No More Sweet Tooth? Science Turns Off Sugar Cravings in Mice
Could manipulating the human brain's desire for sweet foods lead to new weight control methods and better treatments for eating disorders?
Rube Goldberg: The Man Behind the Ingenious Contraptions
Rube Goldberg, an American cartoonist, became famous for illustrating whimsical, overly complex machines designed to perform simple tasks, now known as Rube Goldberg machines.
Quiz: How Much Do You Know About Stephen Hawking?
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Take HowStuffWorks' brief quiz to learn more about the author of 'A Brief History of Time.'
What's Going on With Detroit's Mysterious Zug Island?
A disturbing noise, somewhere between a window-rattling bass and a brain-numbing deep thrum has bugged the heck out of residents in the city of Windsor, Ontario, Canada for years, and it's called the Windsor Hum.
HowStuffWorks Illustrated: Two Legal Gun Modifications
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HowStuffWorks explains two ways that gun owners are modifying their semi-automatic weapons to fire like automatic ones.
Why does a balloon stick to hair?
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HowStuffWorks explains the secrets of static electricity.
Why a Draft Would Weaken the U.S. Military
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Most experts agree that the all-volunteer military is what makes the U.S. armed forces the best in the world. Would that change if the draft was reinstated?
Electricity-free Fridge Could Change Millions of Lives
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.