The Old Man and the Sea

Sliced bread is synonymous with innovation, but really, how wonderful is it if a chilled pat of butter can trash a piece of pumpernickel toast? Fortunately, a trio of Australian designers, Craig...
They say that necessity is the mother of invention. But for one inventor, all it took actually was a simple request from Mom that led him to create the world’s first one-handed zipper. The “2.0″ take...

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A big night out is usually followed by a fry-up, a cup of tea and painkillers. But a Middle Eastern recipe uncovered in a 10th century cookbook could be all you need to cure a hangover. The...
TOKYO — Scientists have settled a decades-old mystery by naming a cause of death for Japan's most famous dog, Hachiko, whose legendary loyalty was immortalized in a Hollywood movie starring Richard...
In 1986, a two-and-a-half year-old girl named Michelle Funk fell into a stream and drowned. By the time paramedics found her, she hadn’t been breathing for more than an hour. Her heart was stopped....
An old Chinese proverb says that the reign of every emperor starts when he dons his new robes. The imperial robes of the last Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) lend legitimacy to this proverb. Clothing was...
In 2011, Dr. Pawan Sinha, a professor of vision and computational neuroscience at M.I.T., published his answer to an almost-four-hundred-year-old philosophical problem. The philosopher William...
The earliest graves were pits cut into the bedrock and covered in stones—but soon they developed into more elaborate structures made from mud brick and stone, featuring rooms designed so that people...

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In the age-old battle between man and man-eating sharks, humans have tried several ways to repel the predators — surfboard leashes that emit electronic pulses and chemical shark repellent among them...

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Brief History Dunhuang, the small town at the edge of the Gobi desert, is located in Gansu Province, China. Dunhuang had become the gateway to the Silk Road during the Han dynasty (205-247BC). The...