Where was the world's first railway line?
We now move around the world by train without thinking about it, with hundreds of millions of people traveling on them every single day. Today,...
We now move around the world by train without thinking about it, with hundreds of millions of people traveling on them every single day. Today,...
Can you imagine watching your favorite cooking show and being able to smell the aromas? ?...
Known as Nacional, the prized heirloom cacao bean was commonplace across the Ecuadorian rainforest in the late 1800s, and instrumental to the then...
Green Bank is a small town in West Virginia with a population of just 141. It’s an innocuous little place, situated in the peaceful woodlands and r...
Have you ever thought about using an extra thumb? Perhaps you could play the guitar faster, or hold an extra tool as you continue to work? Well think...
It might be a famous idiom for something mind-numbingly dull, but imagine if when people asked you what you did for a living, your honest response...
The Carolina Reaper has been usurped. Long known as the world’s hottest chili, it has this month been dethroned by the mysteriously named Pepper X, w...
For 99 years, the land speed record – the highest speed recorded by a person using a vehicle on land – rose steadily. But since the ThrustSCC veh...
Outside the Indiana Statehouse, the state capitol building in Indianapolis, stands a sycamore tree. Planted over 40 years ago, this isn’t any old s...
Since the release of Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster Oppenheimer, millions of people have become familiar with the life of its eponymous subject. T...
A vastly expensive space rover, built to explore Mars, was deemed surplus to requirements by NASA. Out of work, with its life’s purpose seemingly s...
Tokyo has long had to contend with flooding. The Japanese capital’s location on a shallow bay and atop a series of rivers leaves it particularly s...