Will the computer industry become the peacemaker in the digital videodisc wars? That seemed like the possible next chapter in the ongoing technosaga involving the rival formats – that is, unless a new lawsuit filed by a disc manufacturer succeeds in pulling…

While mechanical tomato harvesters represent large-scale scientific and industrial advances, they also offer insight into this country’s complex labor history.

Dr. Pepper: call it soda or call it pop, but either way, there’s a new no. 2 soda in America, and it isn't Pepsi.

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David Bowie's half-brother, Terry Burns, had a definitive impact on creating the artist we all know today as David Bowie. Read the incredible full story here.

By Claudia S. Dunkley, Extension Poultry Scientist, Cooperative Extens

periodic comet and parent body of the Perseid meteor shower

In his own words, “Seventeen years after I was wounded buckshot dropped out of my wound and thirty one years after two pieces of lead came out.”

2008 film directed by Uwe Boll

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After watering his gourd 12 times a day since April, a teacher wins the world championships in California.

distance travelled during a unit of time by a sound wave propagating through an elastic medium

Bismuth is a chemical element; it has symbol Bi and atomic number 83. It is a post-transition metal and one of the pnictogens, with chemical properties resembling its lighter group 15 siblings arsenic and antimony. Elemental bismuth occurs naturally, and…

President of Liberia (1875-1961)

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A brief history and denoscription of IBM's RAMAC 305 and 350 Disk File - the world's first hard disk drive, along with a YouTube video showing them in operation.

A $48.6 billion overhaul of the B-52 is intended to keep it flying until about 2060, and part of a two-bomber fleet with the B-21.

Three times the Academy has come close to awarding a film in all four acting categories, but something stopped them short. Here, we investigate why.

word or phrase that distinguishes one group of people from another