An aqueduct has been and continues to be an imporant way to get water from one place to another. Be it 2,000 years ago in ancient Rome, Italy or today in California, aqueducts were and are essential to get water from a place where it exists in ample supply…

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The 5000-year-old 626-hectare archaeological site of The Sacred City of Caral-Supe is situated on a dry desert terrace overlooking the green valley of the Supe river. It dates back to the Late Archaic Period of the ...

Globally 1 in 7 of us live with a disability. And of those, 80% are invisible. That is over 1 billion people who are living with a non-visible disability.
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Cruise ship overboard detection aim to cut down the response time when someone goes overboard. So, why doesn't every ship have them?

A group in California is starting to engineer plants that could one day replace streetlights

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A chess-playing robot broke a boy’s finger during a match in Russia last week, the president of the Moscow Chess Federation told state news agency TASS media.

Bob Vila, perhaps the most famous handyman in history, found trouble when trying to navigate the myriad ethical challenges of “This Old House.”

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To ward off attackers this mythical animal was said to expel excrement with a devastating explosive force.

Sherlock Holmes entered the public domain this year, and the internet is celebrating with good reason; the possibilities are now endless.

device developed in Canada that could purportedly identify homosexual people, used to eliminate LGBT men from the civil service, the police, and the military

Cheese is the chameleon of the food world, as well as one of its greatest delights. Fresh and light or funky and earthy, creamy and melty or crystalline and crumbly—no other food offers such a variety of flavors and textures. But cheese is not just a treat…

Frank Herbert's Dune is one of the most important sci-fi stories in literature, but J. R. R. Tolkien had his own opinions on it.

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A Michigan funeral home just introduced a drive-thru window so people can pay their respects to a lost loved one without ever leaving the comfort of their car.

By analyzing microscopic defects in the mineral that makes up 60% of the Earth’s mantle, researchers have uncovered what makes this solid rock flow.

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Virgin Records founder Richard Branson and composer Mike Oldfield recall how a leftfield offering by a bedroom genius kickstarted the Virgin empire