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In the construction industry, a “firewall” is a specially-built wall designed to stop a fire from spreading between sections of a building. ...

Men lie, women lie, number’s don’t. PBS takes a look at the sheer ridiculousness of some numbers and then compares them against each other. ...

Leandro Almeida of Rio de Janeiro was cleaning out a storeroom at his family's home when a neighbor noticed a tortoise in a box meant fo...

In 1978 a team of Russian geologists took a helicopter to a remote part of Siberia and encountered a family that had not had contact with an...

Freeze-dried Neapolitan ice cream often comes to mind when we think about what our astronauts are eating high above Earth in the Internation...

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ASAP Science definitively answer the question of which came first — the chicken or the egg. Science Proves Whether The Chicken Or The Egg C...

There’s a new Geographic South Pole Marker, a pretty shiny metal pole that marks the actual geographic pole. Since the ice sheet that covers...

Today's movie-watching tech makes it easier to spot flaws, and the Internet makes it easier to share them. But different people notice d...

Akamai ranks countries based on their broadband speeds every quarter. In its latest report for Q1 2013, the top-ranking country has an avera...

Larry Ferlazzo: Friday is one of the days my Intermediate English class spends a period in the computer lab, and I thought it would be a goo...

I love the work of Shintaro Ohata. His canvases are beautiful on their own but, when he mixes painting and sculpture, he creates optical ill...

This stunning video is a combination of dozens of time lapse sequences shot by astronauts aboard the International Space Station, all artful...

Following Lance Armstrong's doping confession to Oprah on Thursday, an Australian library has moved all books about the American cyclist...

Here's a great self-working card trick to teach your kids. If they are old enough to spell, they will love performing it for their frien...

This beautiful time-lapse video frames Australia’s newest radio telescope array against a backdrop of stars. Radio Telescopes and Star Trai...

FStoppers has the story and the proof. "Mr. SG Collins makes a pretty compelling argument claiming that neither NASA nor Stanley Kubric...

Mensa — the club for people who know they’re smarter than you — is offering its home test for free during the month of January. It’s an IQ t...

Surprisingly, they're not all long, Germanic compound words (generally a font of useful no-equivalent words). Useful words with no Engl...