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A comprehensive energy efficiency infographic that lays out the ways you can make a home energy efficient, from smart window treatments and roofing to walls and doors.
Fill up your gas tank, no matter how hot it is, with confidence and safety from anywhere on Earth. For most of the northern hemisphere, summer is in full swing. Along […]
The U.S. has been in a state of continuous armed conflict since 2001, yet Congress has not declared war on a country since 1942. How have several presidents managed to keep sending troops without a declaration of war, and what does this mean for the American people?
Traditional buildings were designed to provide protection against a savage world. But the world has changed. We need to develop a more sustainable relationship with the environment, and semi-permeable architecture allows us to do that.
Depression, post-traumatic stress, workplace stress and fatigue are only some of the mental health problems that crafting can help relieve.
'Medicare for all', also known as Single Payer Health Care, will be hotly debated this year, and more and more U.S. voters support the idea.
Trash on earth is pretty bad. But space trash is at a whole other level.
Mind-boggling as it is, some of the world's roundest countries are also some of the most rectangular ones.
Scientists have identified a new shape called the scutoid, and it helps explain the how cells in the body arrange themselves in tightly packed three-dimensional structures to form tissues.
A study of over 15,000 men and women reveals interesting data regarding what we claim.
Don't get your Wacker in a Wabash, Chicagoans. This is just one poll.
A new report from the Boston Globe shows how a shadowy Transportation Security Administration program, dubbed 'Quiet Skies', orders undercover federal marshals to track citizens who aren't necessarily on a terrorist watchlist.
Richard Feynman wrote a lot of things. Here, you can read his most touching letter.
A new study reveals the most popular conspiracy theories believed by Russians.
It wasn’t just the Milky Way and Andromeda two billion years ago. Here in the Local Group, our two largest galaxies dominate: Andromeda and the Milky Way. Our Local Group of […]
The study also showed that students who didn’t use electronic devices but attended lectures where their use was allowed also performed worse on tests.
Over 1,500 species of flora and fauna would be at risk if a US-Mexican border wall were ever constructed.
A new study says climate change could cause an additional 40,000 suicides in America and Canada by 2050.
When you have the opportunity to take gravity away from the human body, the results are pretty fasninating.
Job hopping can be a smart career move for many employees, but only if they do it right. Here's how.