We explain how aluminium went from a luxury metal to a world changing material. In the 1800s it was more expensive than gold. New refining methods dropped the price from $1.200 per kilo to just $1.

SpaceX is planning to raise tens of billions of dollars through an initial public offering next year, multiple outlets have reported, and Ars can confirm. This represents a major change in thinking ...

WESTFIELD, Ind. (WISH) — Westfield city government leaders broke ground Tuesday on Grand on Main, a $105 million mixed-use development designed to transform downtown with luxury living and high-end ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Have you gotten shocked while touching a doorknob or a metal surface recently? First Alert Meteorologist Nate Morris explains what causes static electricity and why it’s more common ...

My wife and I rode the Coaster train from Carlsbad to downtown San Diego. Hoping to take a break in the waiting room at the historic Santa Fe Depot, we were informed that the door codes for the ...

The old license plates read "Big Sky Country," but inside Montana, there's an unofficial state motto: "the last best place." Hemmed by the Plains and the Pacific Northwest, Montana is a patchwork of ...

Virgil Ovid Hawkins, better known as superhero Static Shock, first graced the pages of Milestone Comics’ Static #1 in June 1993. The character was created by Dwayne McDuffie, Denys Cowan, Derek Dingle ...

Public universities need their own accreditor. These institutions are the backbone of American higher education. They serve the largest share of students by far, and state-supported colleges and ...

Get started with Java streams, including how to create streams from Java collections, the mechanics of a stream pipeline, examples of functional programming with Java streams, and more. You can think ...

Of all the New York City agencies Zohran Mamdani will soon be in charge of, the largest, by a wide margin, is the public school system. Yet, the mayor-elect did not signal comprehensive plans for it ...

We hear it all the time in true crime podcasts, headlines and neighborhood chatter: Call the cops. The cops showed up. Good cop, bad cop. But have you ever stopped to investigate where the word cop ...

Republicans are grappling with public polls showing the public places more blame on them, rather than the Democrats, for the shutdown, even as they argue they have the moral high ground in the ...