Scientist accidentally discovers a technique that makes a coral reef grow 25-40 times faster, enabling environmentalist to set up coral nuseries

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The pineapple that made Hawaii famous is not actually from Hawaii. Learn about the history of pineapples and how it arrived in America.

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A shot tower is a tower designed for the production of small diameter shot balls by freefall of molten lead, which is then caught in a water basin. The shot is primarily used for projectiles in shotguns, and also for ballast, radiation shielding and other…

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Alien insurance. A leopard-proof cage. And a heroin-addicted ape-man. These are just a few of the odd details behind the making of one of history's most revered movies.

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Many centuries before Dungeons & Dragons was even a glimmer in the eye of Gary Gygax, ancient Egyptians were rolling a d20 die.

Mustard gas blistered men’s bodies on the battlefield, but paved the way for cancer-fighting drugs.

A bisected grape in the microwave makes plasma. But how does it work? A grape is the right size and refractive index to trap microwaves inside it. When you place two (or two halves) close together the fields interact with each other creating a maximum of…

Swaffelen (or zwaffelen) is a Dutch term meaning to hit one's penis—often repeatedly—against an object or another person's body. Swaffelen was named as the word of the year in the Netherlands and Belgium in 2008.

A profile from the May 3, 1987 issue of the magazine, the same day that The Miami Herald published a story with the headline “Miami Woman Is Linked To Hart: Candidate Denies Any Impropriety.”

Travelers to Chicago may experience the wind gusts that come off Lake Michigan, get tossed around a bit and think, “So this is why it’s called the Windy City.” The nickname, which dates back to the late 1870s, is deceiving because, literally, Chicago is a…

As Japan's Shinkansen network celebrates its 50th anniversary, Julian Ryall charts the history of the game-changing locomotive

What if you won the lottery and you got one of those giant cardboard checks -- could you deposit it at the bank?

40 kids from the ages of 8-15 are put into the abandoned town of Bonanza City, New Mexico for 40 days. They have to build their own society by electing leaders, passing laws, and establish an economy.