Everyday customs and conventions stick around because doing things the same way is much easier than changing. Sure, you can come up with a better way, that will save time, effort, or money, but the process of change itse...

Marie Curie coined the term radioactive, and with her husband Pierre discovered radium and polonium. The couple worked in a shed that became covered with radioactive dust, but they didn't mind. They even went out there a...

The influencer appropriately named Kate Will Try Anything is willing to try any sort of daring culinary experiment. Think of her as the Galileo Galilei of food research.In this video, Kate shows us how to ensure that we...

If you've ever had a small fly annoy you in the shower, you've met Clogmia albipunctata. It's a species of drain fly bigger than a fruit fly and smaller than a house fly. You might have wondered where that fly came from,...

You can peg the rarest thing, or the most expensive thing, by numbers. But how do you measure a thing's value? I was always told that something is worth exactly what someone is willing to pay for it. By that measure, thi...

When it's time to get up, you better get up and going. The Human Car Wash will make sure you are awake and have your morning coffee even before you get out of bed! If that sounds pleasant, divest yourself of that idea, b...

The Artemis 1 is set to launch Monday morning from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. This is the first launch of the Artemis mission that will send astronauts back to the moon for the first time in alm...

When Charles Dickens wrote about the squalid poorh...  ...ty, children were employed as free labour – scrubbing acres of floors, peeling tons of potatoes and men...

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<p>Jennifer George wanted to have a closer look on the animals that she saw by her window, and so she set up an outdoor camera in 2019. One day, George noticed a family of coyote pups from her outdoor camera, and n...