In this step-by-step tutorial, learn how to make an electric air pump at home using readily available materials. This DIY ...

On Oct. 21, 2012, Pope Benedict XVI canonized Kateri Tekakwitha as the first Native American to become a saint.

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Built in Lexington, the Dewabout was essentially a buggy with a motor and gears. Weighing about 350 pounds, the car had a two ...

Over the last few decades, inflatables have transformed holiday decorating — and pissed off many neighbors in the process.

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In 2000 TIME’s editors sat down to select three inventions of the year, one each in consumer technology, medical science, and ...

On Oct. 9, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell made a telephone call to his assistant a few miles away — the first demonstration of ...

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Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Perhaps the most brazenly illegal action of President Donald Trump’s second term so ...

Women are largely absent from English history lessons, according to a new report by the charity End Sexism in Schools. A Freedom of Information request found that 59% of history lessons at Key Stage 3 ...