John Carpenter's The Thing had a famously ambiguous ending. But what would have happened if it ended differently?

MIT engineers have flown the first silent, fuel-free “ion plane.” The light aircraft is the first plane to fly with no propellers, turbine blades, or other moving parts.

Building a business on the back of an insect may seem foolish but for Manchester’s Cheney Brothers silk mill, it became the ticket to global success.

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Wally Feresten has worked with every “Saturday Night Live” cast member for the last 30 years. Here are his thoughts on a few of them.

Transformers: Generation 1 (also known as Generation One or G1) is a toy line from 1984 to 1990, produced by Hasbro and Takara. It was a line of toy robots that could change into an alternate form (vehicles such as cars and planes, miniature guns or cassettes…

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He had much more of an input into the film than most people would think

The Elephantine Colossus, also known by its function as the Elephant Hotel, was a beguiling tourist attraction which once took centre stage on Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York. The hotel, built in the shape of an elephant, is a marvellous example of novelty…

The air pollution from cutting grass for an hour with a gasoline-powered lawn mower is about the same as that from a 100-mile automobile ride, according to a new study from Sweden, which recommends using catalytic converters on mowers. The report is the first…

NATO—as a collective organization—is finding it difficult to reach a consensus on how the Alliance should operate within the Indo-Pacific and deal with China, reflecting the wide-range views and national interests that prevent the Alliance from, Journal of…

Princess Diana's funeral in 1997 brought the world together as we collectively mourned the tragic loss of the People's Princess.

Nearly half of Brits would refuse a safe return trip to the Moon, according to new polling, with many uninterested in a visit.

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Gift cards provide retail companies with capital as they wait for them to be redeemed. In 2019, Amazon had $3.3 billion worth of unredeemed gift cards on the books.