The Case for Replacing Your Own Car’s Brakes
You can save hundreds of dollars by replacing the pads and rotors yourself. And it only requires a few cheap tools.
A Mysterious Rock Sat in a School for 20 Years. Nobody Realized It Was Hiding 66 Dinosaur Footprints.
Each of the 66 total prints features three toes, indicating they belong to the ichnospecies Anomoepus scambus— a small ...
Firefighters Went on a Routine Patrol—and Stumbled Upon a Breathtaking Ancient Face
A routine fire patrol, operating some 200 miles northwest of the country's capital, Astana, discovered a nearly foot-long ...
The Best Home Water Quality Test Kits I Tried to See What Was in My Tap
The first is essentially a DIY rapid at-home test with paper testing strips to dip into your water and compare results to an ...
Only a Few Grams of This Element Exist—and Scientists Have Used It to Break the Rules of the Periodic Table
More than 75 years after its initial discovery, scientists have created an organometallic molecule containing the ...
Explorers Found a 130-Year-Old Ship Split In Half at the Bottom of Lake Superior
Touted as a technological wonder, Western Reserve was made from the same steel as the Titanic. Unfortunately, it met a ...
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The 7 Best Small Ice Makers for Tiny Kitchens and Tight Spaces
A traditional ice cube tray can technically do the job, but it requires patience. An automatic ice maker, on the other hand, can make uniform ice cubes fast, leaving you with several pounds of ice ...
Wireless Electricity Is on the Horizon—And It Could ‘Beam’ Power Right to Your House
Power beaming could allow an orbiting space-based power station to deliver one gigawatt of solar power, enough to power about ...