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This unusual lathe experiment puts a potato through the same kind of shaping process normally used for wood. It is messy, ...

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Renewable energy growth is creating grid volatility because solar and wind output often fails to match demand. Researchers in China have developed a modified balsa wood material that absorbs sunlight ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Picture yourself in a windswept forest. Leaves are rustling and trunks are creaking ...

As a professor, I was guilty of circling the word "things" on my students’ essays, cringing at this empty space of a six-letter word. My comment to them: “Think of another word instead of this hollow ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - You get to decide this week the “coolest thing made in Alabama.” Manufacturers around the state are competing in a online tournament called “Manufacturing Madness,” ...

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Your rice cooker has capabilities far beyond its namesake. Here are a dozen things you can make in a rice cooker that aren't rice. Pamela is a freelance food and travel writer based in Astoria, Queens ...

Scout AI is using technology borrowed from the AI industry to power lethal weapons—and recently demonstrated its explosive potential. In a recent demonstration, held at an undisclosed military base in ...

The advertising industry has always been in the business of making things, such as the OOH billboard, the 30-second spot, the snappy social post, the standard website: final, finite assets polished ...