Vital Oxide is a disinfectant made of chlorine dioxide, which has been used to snuff out MRSA infestations in schools and hospitals. More than 4 million Americans live in nursing homes and skilled ...

I write about the intersection of art, science and technology. The Phenomenal Fungi collection includes lighting fixtures made from mycelium and bits of charcoal ... [+] that texturize the surfaces.

A downtown Tokyo pencil maker offers a unique product. Clay made from sawdust. Working to find a way to make use of the waste generated in the pencil making process, current president, Sugitani ...

We wanted to know: What is topsoil and what is it made of? Good Question. It's a dirty job and that's just the way Brandon Leistiko likes it. As clouds of dirt swirled in the wind around his ...

If that sounds like a trick question, it is. Olympic gold medals are not made out of solid gold - with hundreds of gold medals awarded at each Summer Olympic Games, and just shy of 100 at each ...

To help pass the time, [Erich Styger] decided to build a meta digital clock made up of 24 individual analog clocks, the perfect item to help welcome in the new year. The stepper clock is ...

One woman I talked to held a sign that warned: “Don’t let Churches Run the FDA.” I asked her what made her think churches or religion had anything to do with the court case. She said ...

In the late 14th century, a spate of patients scattered across Europe developed an unusual delusion: They came to believe that their bodies were made of glass. Those suffering from this bizarre ...

The tradition of creating “sawdust carpets” for the Feast of Corpus Christi — Latin for “body of Christ” — started centuries ago in the Black Forest region of Germany. The practice was ...

For more than 8,000 years, the desire for goods from distant countries has driven the evolution of complex international trade networks. These trade routes have left a lasting imprint in cultures ...

Augustus of Rome, forty years before Christ, fabricated the first political lie by creating a series of statute portraits that made him appear to be a man of the people, while ruthlessly ...