Many people forget the very earnest and expensive investment in driverless cars. That investment was the multi-million dollar push by the U.S. Congress to build an automated highway system in the 1990s.
From advancing diversity in NASA to anticipating new technologies, “Star Trek” left its mark on American culture.
Have you ever noticed that almost every barn you have ever seen is red? There’s a reason for that, and it has to do with the chemistry of dying stars. Seriously.
Franklin’s vision for American didn’t stop with independence and iconography. He also proposed a redesigned alphabet – a new language for a new nation.
The New York Stock Exchange is built on incredibly quick trades. Here's what just a short moment looks like.
They're mining it and selling it. But don't worry, it's all anonymous. Maybe.
Baseball season is up and running and the experience of going to a game wouldn’t be the same without an expensive beer in one hand and a plastic receptacle of nachos covered in ooey-gooey cheese product in the other. But how did nachos become a stadium standard?
In the past century or so, football helmets have come a long way, evolving from crude “leatherheads” crafted by shoemakers to plastic-and-rubber hybrids that can be customized to fit a player’s head and have radios built in. But are these new models truly safer than their leather predecessors?
What came first: the typist or the keyboard? The answer depends on the keyboard.
Artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg reconstructs the faces of strangers from genetic evidence she scavenges from the streets
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