The Grand Strand Water and Sewer Authority’s recently announced fee changes are a part of its first-ever drought management ...

Explore the inner workings of escalators in this informative video. With insights sourced from Howstuffworks, New World ...

Figuring out how woodpeckers avoid brain damage has inspired humans working in fields like crash safety and helmet design.

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In context: Marshal Brain created the HowStuffWorks website as a hobby in 1998. To his surprise, the site became a go-to for the layman wanting to understand complex processes and systems in ...

Marshall Brain, educator and founder of the popular edutainment company HowStuffWorks, died last week at the age of 63. Born in California, Brain moved to Raleigh in the 1980s to complete a master’s ...

When you scarcely learn anything useful about the very basics in sex ed, it’s unlikely anyone went out of their way to tell you how to use a vibrator for the first time. For most of us, you literally ...

I was recently getting a much-needed haircut with a new stylist, and in our small talk, he asked me what I do for a living. I explained that I teach current and future teachers how people learn and do ...

The days of having a dictionary on your bookshelf are numbered. But that’s OK, because everyone already walks around with a dictionary – not the one on your phone, but the one in your head. Just like ...

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Again and again, research has found that the key to a happy and successful life is to create deep relationships. This requires good communication skills. Unfortunately, many of us aren't good at it.

Are lithium batteries sustainable enough to fulfill the dream of the electric-car revolution? The batteries propelling electric vehicles have quickly become the most crucial component, and expense, ...